Material Culture: Clothing and Textiles Metadata: Practices and Methods for the Arts and Sciences, Global, 1700-2024

The Material Culture: Clothing and Textiles Metadata: Practices and Methods for the Arts and Sciences, Global, 1700-2024 research project is privately sponsored and in collaboration with FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource (www.fashionandtextileseducation.com) under the direction of:

Principal Investigator:
Clare S. Culik-Spencer, M.A., B.A., Co-founder of FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource, London, UK; University of the Arts London: Central Saint Martins, UK; University of California, Davis, U.S.A.

Assistant Researchers:
Elaine Man, MA, B.A., FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource, London, UK.
Lana Shchadey, B.A., FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource, London, UK. Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Alex Secilmis, M.A., B.A., FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource, London, UK.
Marnix Steenackers, B.A., FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource, London, UK. University of the Arts London: Central Saint Martins, UK.
The Material Culture: Clothing and Textiles Metadata: Practices and Methods for the Arts and Sciences, Global, 1700-2024 research project was the first public use of FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource metadata. It was also the first dataset of material culture, clothing, and textiles in visual and video format.
This project provided a transparent system for tracing which areas of research could benefit from histories, theories, and cultural studies of design in fashion and textiles. This provided a wider scope of evidences showing potential ramifications for how this topic can be studied in research. This will aid in understanding not only history and design, but the exact connections and uses in the social and behavioral sciences.
The content of this project shows practices and methods to understand material culture of clothing and textiles from 1700 - 2019 from all seven continents. The 14 selected case studies show examples of material culture of clothing and textiles from FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource in London, United Kingdom. Items were selected through stratified sampling in order to demonstrate ethnographic diversities across the globe.
For this project the research team manually created contexts and used visualizations in the mediums of digital photographs and top view video demonstrations. These visualizations demonstrate how the material culture of clothing and textiles are worn on a human body to evidence the movement of them.