Favorite Resources

British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection

The digital collection of the British Museum

GWU: The Textile Museum: https://museum.gwu.edu/collections

Digital collection of the George Washington University Textile Museum in DC

The Met: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection

The digital collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

National Museum of Asian Art Collection: https://asia.si.edu/collections/

The Smithsonian institutes digital collection on Asian art

National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/research/publications/pdf-library.html?fbclid=IwAR0b7T_2yJvPoA4tDd-sBkGREbZZbJxg7eBFUZBdCnSe7A1a4glyg_IzOW4

Free backlist title from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Russian Museum: http://en.rusmuseum.ru/collections/

The digital collection of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia

Sew or Die: https://www.facebook.com/sewordiereenact

This Facebook page includes many reconstructions of Rus and Central Asian garb as well as links to historic documentation.

State History Museum: https://catalog.shm.ru/

The digital catalog for the State History Museum located in Moscow's Kremlin

Sof'ia's personnel library catalog

I am always happy to scan copies of anything I own. If you see something on this list that you are interested in, please feel free to send me an email and let me know. I have over 600 books in my library but these are the ones most applicable to use in the SCA.