Browse Collections (23 total)

The Historic Textile and Costume Collection contains  fourteen 18th- and 19th- century quilted petticoats or parts. These petticoats represent the…

Twentieth-Century Fashion Designers The Historic Textile & Costume Collection (HTCC) houses numerous artifacts that represent the work of…

Overview - The Tirocchi Collection at the University of Rhode Island consists of well over 1000 objects including dresses, unfinished “robes,”…

Overview - The Tirocchi Collection at the University of Rhode Island consists of well over 1000 objects including dresses, unfinished “robes,”…

The URI Historic Textile and Costume Collection houses several hundred photographs ranging from the early daguerreotypes of the 1840s to paper…

The first Perrin ancestor to arrive in the New World from England in 1635 was John Perrin (Perryn) (1614-1674). He was one of the founders of…

The Ladies’ Paradise artifact study project was a response to a challenge from the International Textile and Apparel Association to incorporate Émile…

"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…

The Historic Textile and Costume Collection has over 150 pairs of men's and women's shoes, boots and slippers that date back to 1768. This doesn't…

The Historic Textile and Costume Collection (HTCC) owns eighty-six parasols and umbrellas dating from 1775 to 1930. A parasol is defined as “a light,…