Artstor Public Collections are a freely accessible library of images and other media where you can search and browse collections with tools to view, share, download, cite, and print media.
All of these collections have been made available by the institutions that manage them in order to allow broader access. All of the images can be viewed and downloaded without restrictions, but you should consult the rights data in each record to see if and how an image can be reused.
The authority on world dress – discover a wide range of text and images from across cultures and throughout history. Biographies of important designers, 150,000 fashion images, 100+ ebooks on fashion including Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
The Europeana Fashion International Association is a non-profit organisation established in order to bring together and engage fashion institutions (both GLAMs - Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums- and creative industries) in the valorisation and exploitation of fashion heritage online.
One of the main objectives of the Association is to keep alive and enrich the Europeana Fashion portal, through which more than 700.000 fashion objects can be accessed, shared and promoted on-line, and that brings together more than 30 public and private archives and museums, coming from 13 European countries, in order to collect and give public access to high quality digital fashion content, ranging from historical dresses to accessories, catwalk photographs, drawings, sketches, videos, and fashion catalogues.
Fibre Stories is the home of stories and resources that have emerged from Fibreshed Field School. Fibreshed Field School investigated ecologically sensitive and economically viable methods of local textile production collaboratively with Fibershed, an international network. Includes free publications, podcasts, how to guides and more!
Library Stack is an eBook lending system, file repository and suite of research and teaching tools for digital publications across contemporary art, graphic design, architecture, philosophy and critical theory. Registering for an account using your ECUAD email address is optional but will provide you with access to more Library Stack resources. Once you have registered, you can log in for full access from on or off the institutional network.
Protection of Privacy Notice. The Library is providing access to Library Stack to you for your convenience. Please be advised that the personal information you disclose to create a temporary account will be stored on servers outside of Canada. When you use this service, no personal information about you is collected by or for ECUAD. Canadian privacy laws do not apply to personal information you provide directly to Library Stack. To learn more about how your personal data may be used by Library Stack should you create an optional account, please review the Library Stack Privacy Policy
MATREC is a company specializing in consulting on sustainable materials and products, trends, market scenarios, and eco-friendly product innovation. Today MATREC cooperates with Companies, Research Institutes, Architects and Designers through the provision of a variety of services and the opening of its International Observatory for Innovative Sustainability made up of thousands of materials and products, in order to promote the research, design, and development of new socially and environmentally sustainable products.
In 2002 MATREC created the first Eco-Materials Library solely dedicated to recycled materials. The project was also launched with the support of major national recycling consortia – Corepla, Comieco, and Cial. In 2006 MATREC expanded to include recycled materials and natural materials in its data base. Partnerships with companies, Universities, and Research Centers allowed MATREC to take an international reach and build a network for daily collection of information on sustainable materials and products. In 2014 MATREC has become Sustainable Materials & Trends. Leveraging on the network established in time, MATREC has developed into an International Observatory for Sustainable Innovation of materials and products as a supporting consulting service at companies for: research on sustainable and innovative materials, development of new products of high social and environmental value, definition of social and environmental sustainability trends and market scenarios for different product types.
An online catalog containing most of Smithsonian collections from museums, archives, libraries, and research units. There are 17.3 million catalog records relating to areas for Art & Design, History & Culture, and Science & Technology with over 7.3 million images, videos, audio files, podcasts, blog posts and electronic journals.
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