artemode.com : Caroline Routh’s fibre art and illustration site
The Bata Shoe Museum with a 12,000+ collection, has set up a Shoe of the Month Podcast series. Every month, Assistant Curator Sarah Beam-Borg selects one shoe and applies her years of footwear expertise to telling its tale. For details, including pictures, visit http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/podcasts/index.shtml
Fashion Museum (formerly Bath Costume Museum)
Berg Publishers books on Fashion
Canadian Conservation Institute
City of Toronto Culture Division, Events in City’s Historic Sites
Cloth doll patterns: www.edwinadolls.com
Costume Museum of Canada sadly vacated its downtown Winnipeg site during March 2010. The 35,000 artifacts were packed up by volunteers. CSO backed the Museum when it opened in Dugald, and hopes it can be reborn; volunteers plan to reopen if they can locate a less expensive location.
Costume Society of Nova Scotia: e-mail re quarterly newsletter, The Clothes Press: costumesociety@ednet.ns.ca. Visit website opened March 2009
Costume reproductions and historical fashion exhibitions; visit website
Descant literary magazine, Issue 38 includes the Fashion and Historic Costume Resource List reprinted in the Costume Journal, Vol. 38 #1.
Design Exchange, Toronto is a registered charity, advances and promotes Canadian design in all disciplines, through public exhibits, education programs, lectures, competitions and research.
Dyes, history: The History of Dyes
Eclectisaurus (vintage clothing and other household items)
Edwina Richards bridal wear (Ottawa studio) and historic costumingFabrics.net information, and resources
Fashion History Museum – site not yet set up
Blogspot worth visiting: Ingrid Mida searches for and comments on the interaction of fashion, art, books, history and life.
Footwear: Regency Footwear
Jane Austen Society of North America
Joseph Brant Museum, Burlington
Lavolta Press publishes a number of quality books on historic and vintage clothing of interest to CSO members; some are listed in Costume Journal; for more, visit Lavolta website.
McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal
Smoke & Fire Company, providing goods for living history re-enactors
Storage of costume, textiles: How to store textiles
Surfacing – Textile and Designers Association
Toronto Heritage Maple Cottage
directions to Textile Museum of Canada
V&A (The Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Wedding dress and accessories information and commentary from Cornelia Powell, online at www.weddingsofgrace.com
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums – British site to find out about museums of the world