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- Heritage Textile Arts Guild - Guild located on the southern Oregon coast whose mission is to pass on the cultural heritage of textile arts. List of officers, events and newsletter archives.
- Women in Textile Art - International group specializing in promoting contemporary textile art by vanguard artists. Application for and information on sponsored exhibit.
- South Hills Textile Arts Guild - A group in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with emphasis on those textile arts using a threaded needle. Photo gallery, calendar of events and programs.
- Textile Arts of the Islamic World - Extensive collection of links to bibliographies on the history and technologies of Oriental and Islamic carpets, textiles and garments. From The Textile Museum Washington.
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts Libraries - The William Morris Hunt Library collection includes over 280,000 items in Contemporary Art; Paintings; Drawings; Prints; Photographs; Decorative Arts; Textiles; Art of Asia, Oceania, Africa, Ancient America, and Ancient Egypt; and Classical art. The W. Van Alan Clark, Jr. Library houses a collection of over 18,000 volumes, supporting research on twentieth century and contemporary art.
- The Textile Museum - Located in Washington, DC, the Textile Museum is dedicated to furthering the understanding of mankind's creative achievements in the textile arts. The museum's calendar, exhibitions, and shop are available.
- Online Spinning and Weaving Guild - Web-based guild for anyone interested in the textile arts. Features user-contributed photo gallery, textile discussion area, real-time chat, and events calendar.
- Textile Museum - The Washington, DC museum devoted to the handmade textile arts. Site features information on exhibitions, educational programs, textile learning center, and shop featuring gifts from around the world.
- Opus School of Textile Arts - UK. Independent textile art school offering a comprehensive program of courses in stitched and embroidered textiles.
- Pippa Caley - Textile design studio creating original textile art with conventional and modern techniques. Extensive slide show of art work.
Wikipedia Articles
- Blocking (textile arts) - In knitting, crochet and other textile arts, blocking is a family of techniques for setting the stable dimensions of a finished textile piece. The process of hand manufacture places regular stresses on a fabric that often cause deviations from its intended shape and size.
- Leeds Arts Club - The Leeds Arts Club was founded in 1903 by the Leeds school teacher Alfred Orage and Yorkshire textile manufacture Holbrook Jackson, and was probably one of the most advanced centres for modernist (modernism) thinking in Britain in the pre-First World War period. Its very existence challenges the idea that radical art and culture only happens in metropolitan centres.
- Fowlers yard - Fowlers Yard is a collection of Creative Workspaces open to the public, providing visitors with the opportunity to meet artists and craftspeople and observe different creative processes, such as jewellery design, architectural stained glasswork, painting, textile arts, embroidery, photography, micro brewing and woodcarving. Situated on the banks of the River Wear the workspaces are moments away from the historic and retail heart of Durham City centre.
- Jan Six - Jan Six (January 14, 1618 in Amsterdam - May 28, 1700 in Amsterdam) was an important cultural figure in the golden age of the Netherlands. The son of a well-to-do merchant in the textile trade, Six studied liberal arts and law in Leiden in 1634.
- Sherman Mills - Sherman Mills is an artists' community created in the former 19th century Dobson Mills textile factory in East Falls, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Sherman Mills has 80 artists, an arts gallery, a bakery, and some other commercial businesses.