Museums and Galleries
If your institution would like to be included as a link, please email: pasold@ed.ac.uk
London and the South of England
Cornucopia: UK Museum Collections:
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
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
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Textile_Museum
University of Leeds International Textiles Archive, Leeds
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ulita
Scotland
Glasgow Museums
www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums
National Museum of Scotland
http://www.nms.ac.uk/
Scottish Textile Heritage Online, Scotland
http://www.scottishtextiles.org.uk
Shetland Textile Working Museum, Shetland, Scotland
https://shetlandtextilemuseum.wordpress.com/
Dalgarven Mill Museum of Country Life and Costume. Ayrshire
https://www.dalgarvenmill.org.uk/
Wales
Newtown Textile Museum, Powys, Wales
www.newtowntextilemuseum.co.uk
Trefriw Woollen Mills Ltd, Conway Valley, Wales
www.t-w-m.co.uk
National Wool Museum, Carmarthenshire, Wales
https://museum.wales/wool/
International
Network Mode-Textil (Germany)
www.netzwerk-mode-textil.de/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=category&cid=71&Itemid=182&lang=en
German Textile Museum, Krefeld, Germany
http://www.germany.travel/en/towns-cities-culture/towns-cities/krefeld.html
Textile Museum, Washington DC, USA
museum.gwu.edu/textile-museum
The Textile Research Centre, Leiden (TRC)
www.trc-leiden.nl
Audax Textile Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
www.textielmuseum.nl/
Museum of Decorative Arts (Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseum), Copenhagen
kunstindustrimuseet.dk/en
The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
www.nationalmuseet.dk/sw20374.asp
Textile Museum, Gross Siegharts Austria
www.gross.siegharts.at/
Textile Museum, Canada
www.textilemuseum.ca
Textile Museum, Lyons, France
www.musee-des-tissus.com
The Textile Museum, Cholet, France
www.museedutextile.com
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Antonio Ratti Textile Center, New York
www.metmuseum.org
Museum of Costume and Lace, Belgium
www.brucity.be
Universities and Research Institutions
Brighton University
www.brighton.ac.uk
Chelsea University of the Arts, London
www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk
Courtauld Institute of Art, London
www.courtauld.ac.uk
De Montfort University, Leicester
www.dmu.ac.uk
Economic History Department, London School of Economics
www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/
Edinburgh University
www.ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh College of Art
www.eca.ed.ac.uk
Glasgow University
www.gla.ac.uk
Lancaster University
www.lancs.ac.uk
Leeds University
www.leeds.ac.uk
London college of Fashion
www.fashion.arts.ac.uk
Manchester Metropolitan School of Art
www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/textiles/
Manchester University
www.manchester.ac.uk
Newcastle University
www.ncl.ac.uk
Northumbria University
northumbria.ac.uk
Royal College of Art
www.rca.ac.uk
School of History, Leeds University
www.leeds.ac.uk/history/index.htm
School of Textiles and Design, Scotland
www.tex.hw.ac.uk/index.htm
Textile Conservation Centre Foundation
www.textileconservationcentre.co.uk
Sussex University
www.sussex.ac.uk
Ulster University
www.ulster.ac.uk
The University College for the Creative Arts
www.ucreative.ac.uk
University College, London
www.ucl.ac.uk
Warwick University
www2.warwick.ac.uk
Wolverhampton University
www.wlv.ac.uk
International Institutions
Copenhagen Textile Research Centre, Denmark
ctr.hum.ku.dk
Michigan University, USA
www.umich.edu
Padova University, Italy
www.lettere.unipd.it
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
www.siue.edu
Southern Maine University, USA
usm.maine.edu
Archive sites with substantial textile collections
Lancashire Record Office : www.lancashire.gov.uk/archives/
John Rylands University Library of Manchester: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/
Guilds and Trade Associations
The Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
www.wsd.org.uk
Knitting Industries' Federation
www.knittingtogether.org.uk/docdcbd.html?doc=14063&cat=670
The Textile Institute, Manchester
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.
www.textilesociety.org.uk
Spinning the Web- useful resource for information on the Lancashire cotton industry
www.spinningtheweb.org.uk
Textile Directory - a comprehensive resource site designed to deliver information about textile related art, craft, fashion and interiors.
www.textilearts.net/directory/
The Woolworths Virtual Museum
www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk