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MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES


London and the South of England

Cornucopia: UK Museum Collections: http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/termsAZ/aterms.html/

Coldharbour Mill Working Wool Museum, Devon
www.coldharbourmill.org.uk/

British Museum, London
www.britishmuseum.org

The Museum of Childhood, London
http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/

The Fashion and Textile Museum, London
www.ftmlondon.org/

Victoria and Albert Museum, London
www.vam.ac.uk/

Warner Textile Archive, Braintree, Essex
www.enjoybraintreedistrict.co.uk

Whithchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire
www.whitchurchsilkmill.org.uk/


Central England

Carrow House Costume & Textile Study Centre, Norfolk
www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk

Fashion Museum, Bath
www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/

Sir Richard Arkwright’s Masson Mills, Derbyshire
www.massonmills.co.uk/

Sroudwater Textile Trust, Gloucestershire
www.stroud-textile.org.uk/


North of England and Scotland

Gallery of Costume, Manchester
www.manchestergalleries.org/our-other-venues/platt-hall-gallery-of-costume/

Queen Street Mill and Helmshore Mill Textile Museum, Lancashire
www.lancsmuseums.gov.uk/

Lewis Textile Museum, Blackburn
http://www.blackburn.gov.uk/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.16977/


National Museum of Scotland
http://www.nms.ac.uk/

National Museum of Costume, Dumfries, Scotland
http://www.nms.ac.uk/museumofcostumehomepage.aspx/

Scottish Textile Heritage Online, Scotland
http://www.scottishtextiles.org.uk

Shetland Textile Working Museum, Shetland, Scotland
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/shetland/weisdalemill/index.html

University of Leeds International Textiles Archive, Leeds
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ulita

Wales

Newtown Textile Museum, Powys, Wales
http://www.powys.gov.uk/index.php?id=2116

Trefriw Woollen Mills Ltd, Conway Valley, Wales
http://www.t-w-m.co.uk

National Wool Museum, Carmarthenshire, Wales
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/wool

International

German Textile Museum, Krefeld, Germany
http://www.agermanyattraction.com

Textile Museum, Washington DC, USA
http://www.textilemuseum.org/exhibitions/current.htm

The Textile Research Centre, Leiden (TRC)
 www.trc-leiden.nl

Audax Textile Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
http://www.textielmuseum.nl/

Museum of Decorative Arts (Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseum), Copenhagen
http://kunstindustrimuseet.dk/en

The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
http://www.nationalmuseet.dk/sw20374.asp

Textile Museum, Gross Siegharts Austria
http://www.gross.siegharts.at/

Textile Museum, Canada
http://www.textilemuseum.ca/exhibitions_previous.html

Textile Museum, Lyons, France
http://www.musee-des-tissus.com/

The Textile Museum, Cholet, France
http://www.museedutextile.com/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Antonio Ratti Textile Center, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/

Museum of Costume and Lace, Belgium
http://www.brucity.be/

 

Universities and Research Institutions

Brighton University
www.brighton.ac.uk

Chelsea University of the Arts, London
http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/

Courtauld Institute of Art, London
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/index.html

De Montfort University, Leicester
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/

Economic History Department, London School of Economics
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/

Edinburgh University
http://www.ed.ac.uk

Edinburgh College of Art
http://www.eca.ac.uk/textiles/index.html

Glasgow University
www.gla.ac.uk

Lancaster University
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/

Leeds University
www.leeds.ac.uk

London college of Fashion
http://www.fashion.arts.ac.uk/

Manchester Metropolitan School of Art
http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/textiles/

Manchester University
http://www.manchester.ac.uk

Newcastle University
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/

Northumbria University
http://northumbria.ac.uk

Royal College of Art
http://www.rca.ac.uk/

School of History, Leeds University
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/index.htm

School of Textiles and Design, Scotland
http://www.hw.ac.uk/sbc/SOTNew/html/STDhome.htm

Southampton University Textile Conservation Centre
www.wsa.soton.ac.uk/textile-conservation-centre

Sussex University
www.sussex.ac.uk

Ulster University
http://www.ulster.ac.uk/

The University College for the Creative Arts http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/index.cfm?articleID=8798

University College, London
http://www.ucl.ac.uk

Warwick University
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk

Wolverhampton University
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/

International Institutions

Copenhagen Textile Research Centre, Denmark
http://ctr.hum.ku.dk/

Michigan University, USA
http://www.umich.edu/

Padova University, Italy
www.lettere.unipd.it/

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
http://www.siue.edu/

Southern Maine University, USA
http://usm.maine.edu/

Archive sites with substantial textile collections
Lancashire Record Office : http://www.lancashire.com/lcc/edu/ro/index.htm

John Rylands University Library of Manchester: http://www.rylibweb.ac.uk/
Guilds and Trade Associations

The Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
http://www.wsd.org.uk/

Knitting Industries' Federation
http://www.emnet.co.uk/kif/

The Textile Institute, Manchester
http://www.texi.org/

Other

The Textile Society promotes the study of textile disciplines and celebrates the history and culture of textiles, both traditional and contemporary.
http://www.textilesociety.org.uk/

Spinning the Web- useful resource for information on the Lancashire cotton industry
http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/

Textile Directory - a comprehensive resource site designed to deliver information about textile related art, craft, fashion and interiors.
http://www.thetextiledirectory.com/

The Woolworths Virtual Museum
http://museum.woolworths.co.uk/