Art + Design

Here are some recent purchases related to textiles and/or fibers!

If you browse the general collection in the following sections, you'll likely run across some useful and interesting books related to textiles and/or fibers:

3rd Floor:

NK – Decorative arts

                NK 2775-2898 – Rugs and carpets

                NK 2975-3049 – Tapestries

                NK 3175-3296.3 – Upholstery. Drapery

                NK 4700-4890 – Costume

                NK 8800-9505.5 – Textiles

5th Floor:

GT – Costume. Dress. Fashion

TP – Chemical Technology

                TP 890-933 - Textile bleaching, dyeing, printing, etc.

TS – Manufactures

                TS 940-1047 – Leather industries. Tanning

                TS 1060-1070 – Furs

                TS 1300-1865 – Textile industries

TT – Handicrafts. Arts and crafts

                TT 490 – 695 – Clothing manufacture. Dressmaking. Tailoring

                TT 697-927 – Home arts. Homecrafts (including sewing, embroidery, decorative crafts)

Click here to get a more thorough description of all the call numbers.

Here's a quick guide on how to read call numbers in our library (and most other academic libraries).

The first line is read in alphabetical order.

• ex. This would be before the PQ's but after the PM's.

Read the second line in numerical order.

• ex. This would be after PN 6746 and before PN 6747.1 or PN 6748.

The third line is tricky. Read the letter in alphabetical order then the number as a decimal.

• ex. PN 6747 .S245 would come before PN 6747 .S5, because .5 in decimal is really .500!

Sometimes the fourth line will look like this and you read it exactly like the other line.

• ex. PN 6747 .S245 P4713 would come before PN 6747 .S245 P8, because .8 in decimal is really .800!

When you see a line near the bottom that looks like a year, it is a year! This goes in numerical order.

• ex. If there was a book just like this except the date was 2003, it would go before the 2007 edition.

You could think of a call number like a detailed address in reverse: planet, country, state, city, street, street number. Each line helps you narrow down the book's exact location!