Joint Internet project of the Leicester City Museum Service and its partners, dedicated to the history of the East-Midlands knitting industry. Timeline. Oral and photographic history. Virtual museum. Resources and links.
Classroom-ready lesson plan on the development of the Boott millyard to understand the workings of the industrial system at Lowell.
Thematic travel routes organised by the European Textile Network, connecting historical European textile mills, including monuments and recurrent events, textile heritage and production, and education and research.
Finland. Extensive on-line reconstruction of the water powered textile mill at Tampere.
Home page of Anne Wanders about textile materials and products from the early history of human kind till the present day. Extensive collections of links to publications, institutions, dictionaries, reviews and articles, symposia and biographies.
Spain. Terrassa Textile Museum and Documentation Centre run Internet service for textile designers and researchers of textile history. Comprehensive resource, searchable by materials, techniques, periods, designs and uses. English, Catalan and Spanish.
Collection of historic handbloks for the printing of textile fabrics from 1785 to 1935, categorised in abstract, cashmere, floral, geometric, ornamental and pictorial designs. Comprehensive description of the handblok printing technique. Links to related sites.
Glossary of terms in use during the Industrial Revolution in England. Also, the story of the Lancashire cotton industry, with biographies of the inventors and engineers
Extensive glossary of textile technical terms in use from medieval times to the mid 1900's. From Class Act Fabrics.
Virtual gallery of an extensive collection of Egyptian textiles from the Pharaonic, Roman and Byzantine, and later Islamic periods of Egypt's pre-modern history, in possession of the The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
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