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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Marcia Weiss is the Director of Textile Design undergrad and graduate programs at Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of the Fashion & Textiles Futures Center. She is also an associate professor of upper level undergrad and graduate
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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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This post is a celebration of that most fanciful of embellishments--the tassel. At its most basic construction, a tassel is a group of threads, yarns, or other lengths of material that is gathered and hung from a roundish head. Usually suspended
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Student assistant Mekhi Granby walks us through his detailed process as he constructs a custom archival storage box for a pair of spats from the turn of the 20th century.
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Hello, it’s Gabby again. I wanted to share with everyone a collection I worked with in the spring semester of my freshman year. I was given a box full of objects created by the designer Frankie Welch. I had never heard of her, so I decided to
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When archaeologist Howard Carter unearthed the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922, the discovery would spark an obsession with ancient Egypt that became a global phenomenon that influenced all aspects of design, including fashion and textiles.
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Hello! My name is Rojin Behroozmand. I’m a 26-year-old M.S. student at Thomas Jefferson University, East Falls campus in my second-year of the Fashion Design Management program and a Graduate Assistant at the Design Center. Born and raised in
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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.