The mission of the Historic Textile and Costume Collection supports teaching in the Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, as well as other departments on campus; encourages research by students, faculty, and visiting scholars; and provides artifacts for use in class, exhibitions in the Textile Gallery, and loans at other museums.
Featured Item
Woman's Cherokee Alphabet Pant Suit by Frankie Welch
This suit is part of the Frankie Welch archive in the University of Rhode Island’s Historic Textile and Costume Collection (URI HTCC). The inventory…
Featured Collection
The Kaleidoscope of Textiles: Dress as Multidimensional Cultural Documents
"Show me the clothes of a culture and I can write its history" - Anatole France (1844-1924)Material culture is the world of things that people – all…
Featured Exhibit
One American Family: A Tale of North and South
Inspired by the 2018 publication of An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery, by URI's Rachel May (PhD '15),...
Recently Added Items
Woman's Cherokee Alphabet Pant Suit by Frankie Welch
This suit is part of the Frankie Welch archive in the University of Rhode Island’s Historic Textile and Costume Collection (URI HTCC). The inventory…
Woman's Cocktail Dress, Ceil Chapman
Ceil Chapman (nee Cecilia Mitchell, 1912-1979) worked in New York City as a designer during the 1940s through the 1960s. After working on Fifth Avenue…
Woman's gown by Tom and Linda Platt
Paige Bailey, graduate student in the Master's program of the Dept. of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design, reached out to Tom and Linda Platt…
Woman's Ultrasuede Dress by Halston
Roy Halston Frowick (1932-1990) began his design career as a free-lance milliner in Chicago in the early 1950s. During this time he adopted the use of…