Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Saskatchewan, Nevada, Northwest Territories, Oregon, Saskatchewan, Washington, Wyoming and Yukon Territories.
The Western Region Costume & Textile Collections list catalogs those institutions, within the Western Region, which possess or feature costumes and, or, textiles.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Production Art Database
8949 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, California 90211 USA
310-247-3000, ext 111
http://collections.oscars.org/prodart/
Search the Production Art Database of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which contains an extensive collection of costume drawings from the entire history of films.
Art Deco Society of California Fashion Salon
San Francisco, CA USA
415-982-3326
http://www.artdecosociety.org/decolife/fashion.htm
The Fashion Salon: Your Guide to Art Deco Dress. This site is for those who collect vintage fashion, sew costume replicas, or study the grooming and etiquette of the "look" of the Art Deco era: the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s. The site includes advice on Deco evening dress and daywear as well as booklets entitled Dressing Deco and How to Gatsby.
de Young Museum Textile Arts
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.
San Francisco, CA 94118
USA
415.863.3330
http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/collections/textile-arts
The Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Department of Textile Arts contains more than 13,000 textiles and costumes from traditions around the world. A remarkable range of techniques are represented, including loom-woven textiles, non-woven fabrics such as bark cloth, felt and knitting, and objects embellished with beading and embroidery.
Highlights from the collection include extraordinary Turkmen carpets, rare 12th- through 15th-century Central Asian and North Indian silks, the most important group of Anatolian kilims outside Turkey, European tapestries, exquisite ecclesiastical textiles and contemporary Bay Area fiber art. Since the 1930s the de Young has been known for its 20th-century couture, particularly from the post-World War II era, with outstanding pieces by Christian Dior, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Madame Grés, Yves Saint Laurent and Coco Chanel.
Search the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The FIDM Museum & Galleries Online Collections
919 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
USA
213-624-1200
http://fidmmuseum.org/collections/introduction/
Choose a category and experience selected works of art from the FIDM collections. Each object is accompanied by relevant information, including dates, materials and maker.
FIDM’s permanent collection includes objects owned and maintained by the museum, and are accessioned by purchase or donation with the goal of enriching our current holdings. Objects are researched, exhibited, and cared for by the FIDM Museum staff.
The FIDM Museum Permanent Collection contains 15,000 objects representing over 200 years of fashion history, including haute couture and ready-to-wear, non-Western dress, film costumes, textiles, jewelry, and fragrance. Two major archives—Rudi Gernreich and Gianni Versace Menswear—are highlights of the museum’s collections. Unless on exhibit, objects in the Permanent Collection are only available for viewing and research by appointment. To inquire about objects in the Permanent Collection, or to schedule a research appointment, contact the Curatorial Office at 213.623.5821.
FIDM also has a study collection of about 1,500 objects spanning 200 years of fashion history. To inquire about objects in the Study Collections, or to schedule a research appointment, contact the Study Collections Manager at 213.623.5821 x3373 studycollection@fidmmuseum.org
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
USA
520-626-8364
http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/collections
The Fowler's collections comprise more than 150,000 art and ethnographic and 600,000 archaeological objects representing ancient, traditional, and contemporary cultures of Africa, Native and Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific. From Yoruba beaded arts of Southern Nigeria, to pre-Columbian ceramic vessels of Peru, to elaborate batik textiles of Indonesia and the vibrant papier-mâché sculptures of Mexico, the Fowler's collections offer a comprehensive resource for exhibitions and scholarship central to the Museum's mandate.
Browse Fowler Museum at UCLA, Collections Online.
Lacis Museum of Lace & Textiles
2982 Adeline Street, Berkeley, California 94703
USA
510-843-7290
http://www.lacismuseum.org/
The Museum collection includes thousands of specimens from pre-Columbian Peru, the finest from the 17th c. European courts and examples of the machine laces exemplifying the 19th c. industrial revolution. An extensive library, focusing on lace, textiles and costume includes over 10,000 items of books, patterns, articles and other ephemera. Related tools of the textile craft include those for all varieties of lace-making as well as an extensive collection of sewing machines.
The Museum website includes slide shows of many of the previous exhibitions.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
USA
Costumes and Textiles
The LACMA Costume and Textile Department houses more than twenty thousand objects, representing more than one hundred cultures and two thousand years of human creativity in the textile arts. Particularly well represented are European Renaissance and European and American textiles, accessories and fashionable dress. The department has outstanding collections of Islamic, South and Southeast Asian, and Asian material, including two major Iranian sixteenth-century carpets—the Ardabil and the Coronation.
Online presentations are available for topics such as Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915, Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection, Century of Fashion, 1900-2000 and English Fashion Drawings by Anne Frankland Lewis.
Maryhill Museum of Art
35 Maryhill Museum Drive, Goldendale, WA
USA
http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/
The Maryhill Museum of Art houses two permanent costume collections.
Theatre de la Mode is made up of one-third human size mannequins created to celebrate world peace at the close of the World War II through their lavish display of the new “modern look” in fashions for women. After their premiere in Paris they toured Europe then America. The last stop of the original 1946 international tour of Theatre de la Mode was San Francisco where the mannequins remained until the early 1950s. At that time they were acquired by Maryhill Museum of Art. They went on a second world tour in the 1990s visiting Paris, New York, Baltimore, Portland and Tokyo.
The museum includes a collection of royal memorabilia from Queen Marie of Romania (1875 – 1938); a friend of Sam Hill’s who presided at the museum’s dedication ceremony in 1926. Included are the queen’s coronation gown, crown, silverware, gilt furniture, jewelry and other memorabilia.
Autry National Center
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462
USA
http://theautry.org/
The Museum of the American West was established in 1988 by legendary recording and movie star Gene Autry to explore and share the comprehensive story of the American West and the multiple cultures, perspectives, traditions, and experiences – real and imagined – that make the West a significant and unique part of the world.
The Museum's collection is comprised of nearly 21,000 paintings, sculptures, costumes, textiles, firearms, tools, toys, games, musical instruments and other historical objects.
The Women of the West Museum merged with the Autry National Center in 2002.
Check out the online images from this collection.
The Nevada State Museum
Marjorie Russell Clothing and Textile Research Center
600 N. Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701
USA
775.687.4810
Marjorie Russell Clothing and Textile Research Center
The Marjorie Russell Clothing and Textile Research Center is a study center for understanding historic costumes and textiles. It was created in 1992 under the direction of the Nevada State Museum and Nevada Historical Society. The Marjorie Russell Center is composed of the costume and textile collections of both founding institutions as well as the Jessie Pope costume collection from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Home Economics. The size of the collections is approximately 10,000 artifacts. Most significant is the women's collection which ranges from the eighteenth century to current day fashions. Other strengths are the quilt collection, hats, children's wear, political and ceremonial dress, flags, banners, and military and men's wear.
Visit the website to view many virtual exhibits and videos on Victorian clothing.
