Welcome to www.costume-textiles.com, a site constructed to fulfil the need of a resourceful place where like-minded individuals can have an International, Interdisciplinary and Intercultural exchange and promotion of information and ideas on all topics and issues related to costume and textiles. 

This site was initially set up to promote Costume Colloquium: a Tribute to Janet Arnold which took place in Florence November 6-9, 2008. It was through the success of this event that the importance and necessity of non-competitive networking was realized, and the desire to create a place to continue the fruitful interactions that were started during the Costume Colloquium has made the continuation and amplification of this web site possible.

Through the Forum and Links you will be able to acquire and post information related to those topics which are timely and pertinent to all visiting this site. In this way you can be informed and connected, through an array of initiatives, within a friendly and congenial format which encourages reciprocal respect of each others’ works and interests. 

Be sure to subscribe to the site mailing list and make www.costume-textiles.com your home page in order to keep informed of all that is happening in the costume and textile world around you!

Promoted by:

 The Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation

The Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, founded in 1998, is a  non-profit Florentine institution promoting initiatives which encourages  international integration without competition within a framework of respect for individual identity. This is obtained through the  mutual exchange of knowledge among students and professionals from different countries and cultures with an extensive network of universities,  libraries, museums, embassies, consulates, as well as public and private cultural institutions and organizations worldwide. The Foundation endorses an array of cultural events which augment the distribution of research information among participants in any specific field of study. (www.fondazione-delbianco.org).