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Clothing & Textiles Collection
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.
Items per page: 10 50 (showing 81 - 90) 979 items
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Negative - Warracknabeal, Victoria, circa 1900
The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum Victoria
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Negative - Two Dancers at the Chelsea Theatre Premiere, Flinders Street, Melbourne, 1960
Black and white 5" x 4" negative showing a man and a woman in fancy dress costume dancing at the premiere of the Chelsea Theatre, Flinders Street, Melbourne, 1960. This image is part o ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - State Electricity Commission, Victoria, Australia, circa 1920s-1960s
Part of a large photographic collection of glass plate and film negatives, photographic prints and photo albums, relating to the development of the electric power supply industry in Vic ...
Images: 1 -
Negative - by Laurie Richards Studio, Warrnambool, Victoria, Oct 1954
Laurie Richards Collection, Museum Victoria
From: Warrnambool, Australia Images: 1 -
Photograph - Gala Day Celebrations, Decorated Building, by Jack Walton, Ballarat, Victoria ...
Black and white image of a building decorated for a street parade.
From: Ballarat, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - Fitzroy, Victoria, circa 1910
The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum Victoria
From: Fitzroy, Australia Images: 1 -
Glass Negative - Grandmother Hoyt with Kate, George & Lawrence Beckett, London, England, 1 ...
Thomas Beckett's grandmother, Mrs Hoyt, with his wife Kate Beckett and sons George and Lawrence, taken in her garden in London, England, 1891. Part of a collection of glass plate nega ...
From: London, United Kingdom Images: 1 -
Digital Photograph - Bride & Bridesmaid on Wedding Day, Driveway, Coburg, 1948
Contributed by Ms Sandra Dennis
From: Coburg, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - State Electricity Commission, Seymour, Victoria, circa 1920s-1960s
Part of a large photographic collection of glass plate and film negatives, photographic prints and photo albums, relating to the development of the electric power supply industry in Vic ...
From: Seymour, Australia Images: 1 -
Negative - Garvoc, Victoria, circa 1935
The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum Victoria
From: Garvoc, Australia Images: 1
