The Power of the Pocket

The Pockets of History collection contains new digital photographs of over three hundred tie-on pockets of the 1700 and 1800s, with overviews and close-ups of details. The photographs come from the first survey ever made of women's tie-on pockets surviving in Britain.

The University for the Creative Arts is a UK based college that teaches Architecture, Crafts, Fashion, Graphic Design, Illustration, Fine Art, Photography, Film, Media, the Performing Arts and Creative Business.

This is documentation of the exhibition "Bags: Inside Out" that was on display from 13 October 2021 to 16 January 2022 at South Kensington.

The Victoria & Albert Museum is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

The Digital Archives presents photos and information of fashion in a digital timeline from the 1700s through modern day.

Instructions and pattern to create your own tie-on pockets. Produced by the Victoria and Albert Museum.