The Textile and Costume Collection is available for browsing and research online through Artstor's digital image resource Shared Shelf. Shared Shelf offers the opportunity to view objects in both the Costume and Textile collections.

Tapestry

Dive into Tapestry, an online catalog of over 10,000 historic fabric swatches from Thomas Jefferson University's vast textile collection. Funded with support from The Barra Foundation, Tapestry allows users to browse and search swatches by motif, design category, color, and other keywords. This catalog focuses on our Zane Collection, which documents textile design at the turn of the 20th century.

Textile and Costume Collection

Explore over 7,000 objects on JSTOR, including textiles and traditional dress from around the globe, 20th century designer garments, and historic objects that document the textile manufacturing industry

Textile Woodblocks

Browse over 300 hand-carved woodblocks, which were used to create patterns on textiles through printing or resist dyeing.