Sunday, March 15, 2009

General Chat

There are more forums out there, but as I'm trying to gather info on Irish textiles, I have left a good few out (war, battles, war, battles, etc...)

Living History.ie (Ireland)
Living History.co.uk
FireStryker
Reenactor
Living History Library


A great way to get titbit's of info is to eavesdrop on the Academics! Here you have access to their chat..

Museum Professionals
Mail-Archives

General Textile History

I'm including a few websites I come across that have general textile info. From ancient to modern.

Spartacus Educational
Basic info for schools, with some good info on Industrial Revolution

General Museums and Publications

The Pasold Research Fund - promotes and supports research on textile history, broadly defined. It does this by giving financial assistance to researchers, by organising and supporting conferences and workshops and by publishing a monograph series and a major journal, Textile History.

Victoria and Albert Museum : http://www.vam.ac.uk/

Quarry Bank Mill Museum : http://www.rmplc.co.uk/orgs/quarrybankmill/

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

American Textile History Museum : http://www.athm.org/sites/athm24/home.html

Textile Museum Washington : http://www.textilemuseum.org/

Macclesfield Silk Museum : http://www.silk-macclesfield.org/

Helmshore Museum : http://www.lancashire.com/lcc/museums/htm.htm

Museum of Costume : http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/Default.htm

Museum of Costume and Lace : http://www.brussels-online.be/musee-du-costume/index.htm

Centre for North West Regional Studies, Lancaster University http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/cnwrs

Websites and Blogs

Regia Anglorum - re-enactment group Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Welsh and Norman
Textiles
Braiding
Embroidery Techniques
Lucets
Nalbinding
Sprang


StringPage - how-to information, photographs and resource lists for a wide variety of textile techniques
Tablet weaving
Sprang
Braiding
Nalbinding
Lucets
Tools


Lotherene Experimental Archaeology

Textiles
Clothes patterns
Tablet Weaving
Sprang
Embroidery


Anne Blinks Textile collection - Pictures, papers and general information



Textile Resources for the re-enactor - Just about everything!


History of English Embroidery - Great blog by Helen Cowans


Ciesta-Textiles - The CIETA is an international association founded in 1954 in order to coordinate work methods used by specialists in ancient textiles, based is in Lyon, France.

Annatextiles - Anne Wanner's Textiles in History - lots of links and info on publications, ecents, etc

SCA
- The SCA is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe. Has just about everything.