
organisations, groups, societies and guilds
Art in the Frame Foundation
http://www.mnig.com
Batik Guild
http://www.batikguild.org.uk
Bridport Open Studios, Dorset
http://www.bridportopenstudios.co.uk
Brunel Broderers
www.brunelbroderers.co.uk
Devon Guild of Craftsmen
http://www.crafts.org.uk
Eastern Region Textile Forum
http://www.ertf.org.uk
Edge Textile Artists
http://www.edge-textileartists-scotland.com
Embroiderers Guild
http://www.embroiderersguild.com
European Textile Network ETN
http://www.etn-net.org
Fibrearts online
http://www.fibreartsonline.com
Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen
www.guildcrafts.org.uk
Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
http://www.wsd.org.uk
International Felt Makers Association
https://www.feltmakers.com
Somerset Arts Week
http://www.somersetarts.com
Somerset Guild of Craftsmen
http://www.somersetguild.co.uk
South West Textile Group
http://www.southwesttextilegroup.org.uk
Stitch Textile Artists
http://www.stitchtextileartists.co.uk/
Stroud International Textiles
http://www.stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk
Stroud Valleys Arts Space
http://www.sva.org.uk
Stroudwater Textile Trust, Gloucestershire
http://www.stroud-textile.org.uk
Surface Design Association
http://www.surfacedesign.org/
Textile Institute
http://www.texi.org
Textile Society
http://www.textilesociety.org.uk
The Ann Sutton Foundation
https://www.asf-weave.com
The Sixty Two Group of Textile Artists
http://www.62group.org/
professional and trade organisations
Artists Information Company and artists newsletter
http://www.a-n.co.uk
Arts and Business
http://www.aandb.org.uk
Arts Council England South West
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk
Arts Council England South West
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk
Arts Matrix
http://www.artsmatrix.org.uk
Audiences South West
http://www.audiencessw.org/
British Design Initiative
http://www.britishdesign.co.uk
British Interior Textile Association (BITA)
http://www.interiortextiles.com
Chartered Society of Designers
http://www.csd.org.uk
Crafts Council
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk
Craftspace
http://www.craftspace.co.uk
Creating Excellence
http://www.creatingexcellence.org.uk
Design and Artists Copyright Society
http://www.dacs.org.uk/
Design Business Association
http://www.dba.org.uk
Design Council
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk
Dress and Textile Specialists
http://www.dressandtextilespecialists.org.uk/
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (RSA)
http://www.rsa.org.uk
Touring Exhibitions Group
http://www.teg.org.uk/
textile journals and magazines
Crafts
www.craftscouncil.org.uk
Embroidery
www.embroiderersguild.com
Fibrearts Magazine
http://www.fiberarts.com/
International Textiles
www.itbd.co.uk
Reinventing Textiles
www.telos.net
Selvedge
www.selvedge.org
Stitch Magazine
http://www.embroiderersguild.com/stitch/
Text
www.textilesociety.org.uk
Textile Forum (ETN journal)
www.textileforum.com
Textile View
www.view-publications.com
Textiles
www.textiles.com
textile education
Aim Higher (education information for UK)
www.aimhigher.ac.uk
ArtsMatrix Ltd - professional development agency for artists in the South West
www.artsmatrix.org.uk
Bath Spa University College
www.bathspa.ac.uk
City of Bath College
www.citybathcoll.ac.uk
Design Research Society
www.designresearchsociety.org
Distant Stitch
http://www.distantstitch.co.uk/
GLOSCAT
www.gloscat.ac.uk
Hawkwood College
http://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/
Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts
http://www.jctextilearts.com/
Knitweave - Textile workshops in St Ives
http://www.knitweave.co.uk/stives-workshops.html
Plymouth College of Art and Design
www.pcad.ac.uk
Somerset College of Arts and Technology
http://www.somerset.ac.uk
Somerset College of Arts and Technology
www.somerset.ac.uk
Strode College
www.strode-college.ac.uk
Textile Study Group
http://www.practicalstudygroup.co.uk/index.html
The Higher Education Academy (Art, Design, Media subject centre)
www.brighton.ac.uk/adm-hea/
University College Falmouth
www.falmouth.ac.uk
Weymouth College of Art and Design
www.weymouth.ac.uk
Workshop on the Web - textile innovation online
http://www.workshopontheweb.com
textile collections
Allhallows Museum of Lace and Local Antiquities, Honiton, Devon
http://www.honitonmuseum.co.uk/
Burton Art Gallery and Museum,Bideford, Devon
www.burtonartgallery.co.uk
ColdHarbour Mill, Devon
www.coldharbourmill.org.uk
Costume Museum, Bath
http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk
Holbourne Museum, Bath
www.bath.ac.uk/holbourne
Killerton House, Exeter
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Longleat House, Wiltshire
http://www.longleat.co.uk/
Montacute House, Somerset
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
The American Museum, Bath
www.americanmuseum.org
southwest textile/craft galleries
Appledore Crafts Company, Appledore
www.appledorecraftscompany.co.uk
Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset
www.blackswan.org.uk
Brewery Arts Centre, Cirencester
www.breweryarts.org.uk
Coombe Farm Gallery, Devon
www.rileyarts.com
Create at Walford Mill Crafts
www.walfordmillcrafts.co.uk/Create.htm
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon
http://www.crafts.org.uk
Mid Cornwall Galleries
www.mid-cornwall-galleries.co.uk
Rope store gallery, Stroud
www.ropestoregallery.co.uk
Southern arts crafts maps
www.craftscouncil.org.uk
Trelissick Gallery, Cornwall
www.cornwallcrafts.co.uk/trelissick.php
Walford Mill Craft Centre, Dorset
www.walfordmillcrafts.co.uk
other useful links
art directory
http://artdesy.com/
Art Van Go (textile materials)
http://www.artvango.co.uk
Fashion and Textile Museum
www.ftmlondon.org
Fibrecrafts (materials and equipment)
www.fibrecrafts.com
Lesley Bricknell, designer
www.lesleybricknell.co.uk
Material Connexion
www.materialconnexion.com
Morplan (display, fashion and retail supplies)
www.morplan.com
Nuno Corporation
www.nuno.com
Stroud Textile Festival
www.stroud-textile.org.uk
Tate St Ives
www.tate.org.uk/stives
V&A
www.vam.ac.uk
WGSN (trend forecasts)
www.wgsn.com
Whaleys of Bradford (fabrics)
www.whaleys-bradford.ltd.uk
national textile/craft galleries
Hub
http://www.thehubcentre.info/
international textile/crafts galleries
Textile projects
Cultex - textiles as a cross cultural language
http://www.cultex.org
Textile online social networking sites
Flickr Contemporary Textile Art
http://www.flickr.com/groups/contemporarytextileart/pool/page2/
Tweave
http://www.tweave.co.uk/
Twitter Textile Art Groups
http://twitter.com/CheshireSheOak/textile-art-groups