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
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
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.
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.
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