Links

Below you will find our friends, associates and other sites of possible interest. So if you're fascinated by fashion, costume and their history, take a look around.

If you know of any more sites we might link to then please get in touch.

Costume Society
http://www.costumesociety.org.uk

Bath Fashion Museum
http://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk

Costume Society of Scotland
http://www.costumesocietyscotland.co.uk

Southern Counties Costume Society
http://www.sccostumesociety.org.uk

The School of Historical Dress - The School encourages new research into historical dress and introduces students to the tools needed for this, such as how to study an object, to identify its materials, cut, construction and historical context.
http://theschoolofhistoricaldress.org.uk/

Textile Society of America - Luxurious Merovingian Textiles Excavated from Burials in the Saint Denis Basilica, France in the 6th-7th Century
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1674&context=tsaconf

The Medieval Dress and Textile Society
http://www.medats.org.uk

The V&A Learning Academy - The Learning Academy programme offers adult visitors unique access to V&A collections and expertise.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/learning-academy

Bikes & Bloomers - Cycling, sewing and suffrage storytelling through inventive women's cyclewear.
This project tells the story of how some women creatively challenged conventional ideas of how a women should look and move in public space through their clothing.
http://bikesandbloomers.com/bb-at-wecs/

Association of Dress Historians - The Association of Dress Historians supports and promotes the study and professional practice of the history of dress, textiles, and accessories of all cultures and regions of the world, from before classical antiquity to the present day.
https://dresshistorians.org/

The Make Room - Sewing Classes
Day, Evening and Workshops
Learn to sew, make and create clothes and much more.
Classes near Box, Corsham, Bath.
https://www.themakeroom.uk/

The Costume and Textiles Society of Wales - The Society exists to promote and encourage the study, preservation and documentation of costume and textiles in the region of Wales and the Marches, and to further research into these subjects, by means of meetings, lectures, exhibitions, visits, etc.
https://www.costumeandtextilesocietyofwales.org.uk/

Northern Society of Costume and Textiles - The Society has an enthusiastic interest in all things costume and textiles, with a bias towards the historical. They organise a programme of quarterly meetings with lectures by guest speakers and visits to private and public collections.
http://www.nsct.org.uk/

Charles Bayer Corset Factory - An excellent article by Julie Johns about Charles Bayer's company making stays and corsets with its several factories in Bath and Bristol.
https://www.bittonhistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/C-Bayer-Corset-Factory.pdf