Collections

We have an extensive collection of books on a range of subjects including design, textile design, cookery, and household management.

Many of our designs are for wallpapers and textiles and were created by the Silver Studio. They were sold to clients around the country between 1880 and the early 1960s, including Liberty's, Turnbull and Stockdale, Sanderson and Warner and Sons Ltd. These designs are in a variety of media, including pencil, inks, charcoal, pastels and gouaches.

Our ephemera collection includes cigarette cards, postcards, newspaper cuttings, and posters.

MoDA has 400 traditional Japanese katagami stencils used for resist-printing textiles.

Find out about the magazines and journals in MoDA’s collection

Find out more about the many kinds of photographs in MoDA's collections

MoDA's collection of posters and pamphlets are a great source of inspiration for anyone interested in image/text, the use of colour and graphics.

Our textile collection includes printed and woven furnishing fabrics designed for British homes 1880-1960, and examples of dress fabrics.

MoDA holds one of the country's finest collections of mass market wallpaper dating from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.