MoDA Reading List – Textiles

Publications relating to the history of textiles, with reference to MoDA's collections

Textiles and the Silver Studio collection

[Article] Hendon, Z. (2018) ‘Behind the Scenes at the Silver Studio: Rex Silver and the Hidden Mechanisms of Interwar Textile Design’, Architecture and culture, 6(1), pp. 61–80. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2017.1397963. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Protheroe, Keren.(2011) Petal power : floral fashion and women designers at the Silver Studio 1910-1940. London. Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Parry, Linda.(2005) Textiles of the arts and crafts movement. London. Thames and Hudson. Find it on MDX Library Search

Postwar Textiles

[Book] Shelby, Shanna; Navas-Nieves, Tariana.(2008) Designing women of postwar Britain : their art and the modern interior : selected work from the collection of Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III. Colorado Springs: Fine Arts Center. Find it on MDX Library Search

Textile Crafts

[Book] Knight L. (2016). The button box : lifting the lid on women’s lives. Chatto & Windus.

[Article] Hackney.(2013) Quiet Activism and the New Amateur: The Power of Home and Hobby Crafts. Design and culture: the journal of the Design Studies Forum, 5, pp 169-193.  Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Hackney, F. (2006) ‘“Use Your Hands for Happiness”:: Home Craft and Make-do-and-Mend in British Women’s Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s’, Journal of design history., 19(1), pp. 23–38. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epk003. Find it on MDX Library Search