Most of the leaves have now fallen off the trees in our beautiful backyard at the Design Center. The days are certainly shorter and the semester is drawing to a close. Thinking about this caused me to reflect on all of the amazing work my staff
Jade Papa
Curator and Adjunct Professor, Textile & Costume Collection, The Design Center, Thomas Jefferson University
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Nestled amongst the cases that display the work of our talented fashion design undergraduates on the first floor of Hayward Hall on Thomas Jefferson’s East Falls campus, you might notice a case where the garments look a little different from the
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When you walk through the front doors of the Design Center, the building that houses the Textile & Costume Collection on Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus, you may never guess that you’re steps away from tens of thousands of
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This week, we bring you some stunning examples of a variety of trim samples held in the Textile & Costume Collection. Our graduate student, Rojin Behroozmand, has been working on inventorying these pieces for us, but after I had a sneak peak of
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Did you know that as part of our collection we hold tens of thousands of fabric swatches dating back to the seventeenth century? Well, now you can check out some of these swatches on our new and improved website Tapestry.
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Just in time for the spring semester, we’ve uploaded a new batch of womenswear to our online collection. These pieces, many of which have never been offered digitally, date from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s and represent only a small portion of the
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It’s hard to pick a favorite out of all of the amazing objects we have in the Collection, but near the top of my list is the wardrobe of a young boy named Dermot Chickering Murphy.
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The Textile and Costume Collection is fortunate to count amongst its holdings a number of knitwear pieces from a designer dubbed the “Queen of Knits” by Women’s Wear Daily in 1968.
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Have a peek at one of our treasures, a crazy quilt featuring a collage of textiles and embroidered details such as spiders and webs, deer, birds, and butterflies.
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Last year, I spent a good deal of my time outside work delving into the world of mother-of-pearl buttons. This likely seems a rather random topic, but as a native Iowan, I was intrigued to delve deeper into an industry that for a period