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Fashion and Textiles

Find information on Fashion Design, Textiles, Fashion Business and Textile Technology.

Find books, e-books and chapters

Academic books are often written by experts in a particular field, meaning they provide reliable, well-researched, and credible information. They are typically published by reputable academic publishers, making them trustworthy sources for your assignment.

Log in and search LibrarySearch using keywords that describe your topic, then refine your results to books and book chapters.

  • Combine your keywords with AND to find all search terms.

  • Use OR to find any words or synonyms.

  • Find “exact phrases” with quotation marks.

  • Add an asterisk to part of a word to find different endings and plurals.

An example search: 

"fast fashion" AND (fabric OR textiles) AND sustainab* 

Browse the Collection

 

Browse the Library shelves using these call numbers (shelf location numbers).

  • 391: Clothing 
  • 391.009: Costume and Fashion History 
  • 391.009: Australian Fashion History  
  • 391.1: Costumes : Men - 
  • 391.1: Mens clothing and dress  
  • 391.2: Costumes: Women 
  • 391.3: Costumes: Children  
  • 391.4: Accessories  
  • 391.413: Footwear Fashion 
  • 391.44: Handbags  
  • 646.2: Sewing 
  • 646.32 : Mens clothing and construction  
  • 646.4: Tailoring 
  • 685: Leather, Fur and related products  
  • 685.31: Boots : design and construction 
  • 685.3102: Footwear Design and Construction  
  • 745: Decorative Arts 
  • 746-746.9: Textiles  
  • 746.92: Fashion Design & Designers  
  • 746.92: Fashion Show  
  • 746.92024: Image Consultant  
  • 929.6: Tartans  

 

  • 658.834: Consumer behaviour   
  • 658.87: Retail marketing 
  • 659.15: Visual Merchandising 
  • 687: Clothing production    
  • 687: International Standards for clothing sizes  
  • 687.0688: Fashion merchandising    
  • 746.92068: Clothing trade, fashion merchandising

 

  • 338.47687 Ethical fashion 
  • 646.4 Remaking clothing
  • 746.92 Sustainable fashion/ Environmental aspects of fashion

e-Books guide

Tips on using e-books

The Library's e-Books guide covers everything you need to know about finding and using e-books.

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