Textile Engineering

The AATCC Technical Manual contains 150+ current AATCC test methods, evaluation procedures, and monographs related to chemistry, colorfastness, laundering, moisture management, and water resistance. Documents are reviewed and approved by a committee of industry experts.

Electronic access to ASTM standards 07.01 and 07.02.

is an online version of the definitive guide for anyone who needs to know details of which companies manufacture and distribute dyes and pigments, or for anyone looking for technical details of these products. Colorants are listed according to the widely acclaimed system of Colour Index Generic Names and Colour Index Constitution Numbers. A detailed record of products available on the market is presented under each Colour Index reference. Against each product name is listed the manufacturer, physical form, principal usages and comments supplied by the manufacturer to guide prospective customers.

Engineering Village is a platform that enables in-depth search and discovery of current, archival, and interdisciplinary content in the applied engineering and physical science disciplines. Content includes journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, dissertations, standards, books, preprints, patents, and technical reports from global publishers, including the engineering societies IEEE, ASME, SAE, and ACM.

Collection of over 1,400 materials and processes. The online materials database contains the latest and most exciting materials originating from a large spectrum of industries typically unnoticed or difficult to reach by the design community. All the materials are juried into the database by a panel of material specialists and knowledgeable professionals.

Provides coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing, Textile Technology Index traces the body of knowledge in textile science and technology as far back as the early years of the 20th century

Textile manufacturing news and analysis provided via a group of journals: Digital Textile, Future Textile, International Dyer, Knitting International, Nonwovens Report International, Twist, and Textile 4.0.

Provides international coverage of scientific, trade, technical and economic publications, this bibliographic database covers decades of information relating to developments and innovations in the textile industry.

"GreenFILE covers the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology."

Topics include: Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Computing, Engineering

A full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters. Jefferson subscribes to some, but not all content.

Scopus is Jefferson Libraries’ broadest literature database for nursing, life and health sciences. Scopus searches citations and abstracts of over 44,000 sources across a broad spectrum of sciences, medicine, social sciences and technology, journals, books, conference papers, and world patent literature. Alerts and individual profiles are available. Since 1996, Scopus has indexed the citations and references for each document, making it possible to track citations to individual documents and authors. A suite of article, journal and author metrics are available to analyze research impact.

Industry news regarding the textile and retail apparel trade at a global scale.

Tapestry is amazing. It's an online catalog of over 10,000 historic fabric swatches from Thomas Jefferson University's vast textile collection. This catalog focuses on our Zane Collection, which documents textile design at the turn of the 20th century.

*Note: At this time, Textile Hive is not available off-campus.*
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A global collection of 40,000 textiles gathered from over 50 countries and spanning 200 years of design history, photographed in high-resolution format for remarkable detail, texture and color accuracy, and enriched with detailed contextual information. Users can browse and create collections of textiles, colors, and patterns from the Andrea Aranow Textile Design Collection.