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African textiles
African Craft.com
A
portal dedicated to promoting the arts and the artisans of Africa.
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African textile
resource centre,
from Adire African Textiles.
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Kuba
Textiles,
an Introduction.
Antique fabrics, swatches
Andrea Aranow Textile Documents
Antique, retro, handmade fabrics from America, Japan, France, England,
Indonesia & Peru.
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Antique Fabric.com
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Antique
fans. Mendes, UK.
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Antique
textiles.
A resource for antique textile information. TextileAsArt.com
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Antique fabric swatches suppliers for the apparel and home furnishing markets.
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The Design Library
The Design Library has the world’s largest
collection of documentary fabrics, wallpapers, original paintings,
embroideries and yarn dyes. The Library collections date from the 1750s
to the late 20th century and number some five million designs sorted
into 900 categories.
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Dimitrios Design Archive:
antique textiles, patterns and fabrics.
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French antique fabrics.
Historical notes and archives.
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Sarajo Textiles
Antique textiles from Asia, Africa Europe and the Americas.
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Stay Org
Textile Design Base. An extensive collection of textiles designs from around the world.
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Textile Creations by Lily
Comprehensive design library & resource of antique documents for the textile industry.
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Textile Design Group Textile Library. Swatches:
A Sourcebook of Patterns with More than 600 Fabric Designs.
Artists
Open
Directory Project web directory of textile artists.
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Tapestry
artists. The Open Directory web directory.
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Yahoo
directory of personal textile exhibits.
Albers,
Anni. Anni Albers, foremost textile artist.
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David,
Arthur.David Arthur, textile designer.
A gallery of Couture and Prêt-à-porter
print designs.
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Rhodes,
Zandra. Zandra Rhodes Homepage
The Australian Forum for Textile Arts (TAFTA)
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The Australian Tapestry Workshop
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Batik, Rhozome
Dorothy Bunny Bowen homepage.
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Salley Knight
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Rhozome and batik shows.
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World Batik Conference archives
Bauhaus textiles
Blogs
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Categories of textile. Wikipedia entry.
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Cavalli, Roberto. Roberto Cavalli
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Central
Museum of Textiles, Poland.
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Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, London.
Textiles, furniture and lighting.
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Chinese textiles
Chinese
textiles.
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Chinese textiles.
Chinese Accessories 18th & 19th c
Chinese Sleevebands & Hangings
Chinese Robes & Skirts
Chinese Insignia or Badges of Rank
Meg Andrews
Costume .
See
also: Costume
A-Z
of Costumes
A directory of costume websites, from African American Wig
to Wonder Woman Costume.
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Costume
and textile museums.
Historic fashions, historic costumes, costume and
textile library.
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Designs, swatches
The Design Library
The Design Library has the world’s largest
collection of documentary fabrics, wallpapers, original paintings,
embroideries and yarn dyes. The Library collections date from the 1750s
to the late 20th century and number some five million designs sorted
into 900 categories.
.
Dimitrios Design Archive:
antique textiles, patterns and fabrics.
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Textile Design Group Textile Library. Swatches:
A Sourcebook of Patterns with More than 600 Fabric Designs.
Dictionaries, encyclopedias, archives, databases
Dictionary
of textile terms. ICCFD
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Tex.in. Textile & Apparel Directory & WWW Database
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The Design Library
The library textile collections date from the 1750s
to the late 20th century and number some five million designs sorted
into 900 categories.
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Wikipedia
entry on textiles.
Dyeing
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Elitis
furnishings, wallpapers, fabrics.
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Embroidery
Emroidery, embroiderers
web directory from The Open Directory Project.
Etro
design. Furnishing, design, accessories.
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Fabric painting
Fabric
Painting and Batik. About.com
Fabrics,
cloth, types of cloth; Wikipedia entry.
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Fashion
and Textile Museum, London (Zandra Rhodes Museum).
French textiles
French
textiles as art. Antique Frech textiles, sample patterns.
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French
Treasures.com
French Treasures specializes in French vintage fabrics and
fine French antique textiles from the mid-18th century to the early 20th
century. The site includes historical notes on textiles.
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French
textiles industry site.
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Getty
Museum French textiles collection
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Hargrett
Library Paris Music Hall fashion collection.
Getty
Museum textiles collection.
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Global Textile and Clothing Trade
Textile and Clothing Information and Reporting.
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H
History
I
Illustrations About Weaving, Textiles, and Related Topics.
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Interweave.
Fibre art information resources.
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Italian textiles
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Japanese textiles
Japanese
Embroidery Center
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Japanese Textile Art
The Textile Art
Collection presents extraordinary and rare, antique (pre 1900)
selections of Japanese textiles that have been carefully cherished and
preserved as family heirlooms – some for centuries.
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Japanese
textiles. Habu Textiles
Journals
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Kent
State University Museum
The Kent State Museum contains important collections of fashion and
decorative arts. The Museum provides students with first-hand
experience with historic and contemporary fashions, as well as costumes
representing many of the world's cultures.
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Knitting
L
Lace
Looms
M
Magazines, journals
Fiber
Arts Magazine
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Textile
News
An online textiles magazine.
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Textile
World
Manufacturing.
Wikipedia entry on textile maufacturing.
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Marvic
Textiles
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Medieval
& Renaissance costumes; web resources.
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Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York Costume Collection
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Moda
Online. The Italian fashion magazine.
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Musèe
de la Mode et du Textile
(Museum of Fashion and Textiles, France)
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Museums
American
Textile History Museum
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The Art Insitute of Chicago textile collection.
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Fabric
Workshop and museum, London.
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Fashion
and Textile Museum, London
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Musèe
de la Mode et du Textile
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The Museum of International Folk Art
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Netherlands
Textile Museum
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Textile
Museum, Washington DC.
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Victoria
and Albert Museum, London (textile collection).
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Open
Directory Project index of textile museums.
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Needlework
A
needlework web directory from The Open Directory Project.
Netherlands
Textile Museum
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North
Carolina State University College of Textiles
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O
Open
Directory Project index of textile webpages.
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Peabody
Essex Museum
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Preservation
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Quilting
America's
Quilting History
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CQ
Mag Online
A magazine for crazy quilters.
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Crazy
Quilts, a web directory from The Open Directory Project.
The
Crazy Quilt Society, U.S.
Quilting
on the wet.
Aweb directory from The Open Directory Project.
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The
Quilt Channel - a web directory.
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World
Wide Quilting Page
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Silk
Guild
of Silk Painters, UK.
An international silk painter group.
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SilkpaintersInternational
(SPIN)
An international organization of silk artists, painters, practitioners
and educators.
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Silkroad
Foundation. The History of Silk
The origin and development of silk creation.
Stronheim
and Romann
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Tapestry
Gobelins manufactory, Paris, France.
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Studies in Western Tapestry
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Bayeux Tapestry Museum
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The Bayeux Tapestry Story
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The Franses Research Archive and Library in London is the world's
largest academic resource on European Tapestries and Carpets. It
operates as non-profit and houses over 160,000 visual records, which
have been meticulously cross-referenced by subject, date, and origin.
The information has been collected and catalogued from several hundred
museums, libraries, trade and private collections, and allows precise
identification of individual works (as well as visual reconstruction of
dispersed sets of tapestries).
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Jagiellonian Tapestries
The collection of textiles, with about 730 items, is one of the most important at Wawel. Poland.
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The Tapestries of the Apocalypse
(Château d’Angers)
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The Apocalypse Tapestry. Flickr
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Tapestry. Wikipedia entry.
Technology. New textile technologies
Textile categories. Wikipedia entry.
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Textile
News
An online textiles magazine.
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Textile
Museum, Washington DC.
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Textile
resources, links to textile websites. Rugs, needlework.
Rug Hooking Online
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U
U.K Textiles
The Textile Directory
HotHive Textiles provides access to the world of creative textiles and
is a comprehensive resource site designed to deliver information about
textile arts.
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Victoria
and Albert Museum, London.
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Victorian
Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.
One of the world's great centres
for contemporary hand-woven tapestry.
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W
Weaving
Wikipedia
entry on textiles.
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Zandra
Rhodes
Textile artists
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