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Clothing & Textiles Collection

Jacket - Blue Vinyl Mini

Image: Jacket - Blue Vinyl Mini

Source: Museum Victoria

This collection consists of clothing and textiles produced and used in historical and contemporary contexts in Victoria.  It encompasses social history, design, manufacturing and craftsmanship.

Providing insight into the design, materials, manufacturing techniques and processes, and use and context of clothing and textiles in Victoria, it documents people's responses to their natural and built environments.

Clothing is broadly defined as anything that covers, adorns and accessorises the body. Textiles are broadly defined as vegetable, animal or synthetic materials enhanced by hand or machine to form threads, ropes and sheets of material that can be used to create other products.

Clothing and textiles are a significant form of material culture, and have also been acquired and interpreted in the context of other collection areas, such as Migration History, Childhood and Public Life.

Significant items:

  • A comprehensive range of objects from several key Victorian manufacturers, some of which no longer exist, including the Simpson's Glove Factory and the Grenoble's glove collection.
  • The Prue Acton Collection is of national significance as a record of the career of one of Australia's leading fashion designers from the 1960s to the 1980s.
  • The Economic Botany Collection holds valuable 19th- and early 20th-century samples of both raw and manufactured textile materials.
  • The Indigenous Cultures Collection includes a large range of clothing and textiles, including highly significant and unique 19th-century material.

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I also have a similar time piece signed on the face "R GILBERT& SONS BARROW & DALTON". The case is hallmarked for Chester with the letter "C" to indicate 188 ...

Brian Townson on Pocket Watch - R. Gilbert & Sons, Barrow, 1818

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I think this may be the original Brock Boy Band, it looks like the back of our old house and the people look familiar to me

Luana Brock on Negative - Trafalgar District, Victoria, circa 1925

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