Links

Links and useful addresses

Organizations

www.quiltersguild.org.uk The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles

www.americanquiltstudygroup.org The American Quilt Study Group

http://australianquiltstudygroups.blogspot.com/p/quilt-study-group-of-australia.html Australian Quilt Study Groups

www.quiltstudy.org International Quilt Study Center, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

www.nationalneedleworkarchive.org.uk National Needlework Archive

www.nationaltrust.org.uk National Trust

www.textilesociety.org.uk The Textile Society

Museums/Textiles on display

www.quiltmuseum.org Quilt Museum and Gallery, St Anthony's Hall, Peasholme Green, York YO1 7PW
HQ The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles
Tel: 01904 613242

www.americanmuseum.org The American Museum in Britain, Claverton Manor, Bath BA2 7BD
Tel: 01225 460503

www.beamish.org.uk Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, Co Durham DH9 0RG
Tel: 0191 370 4000

www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co Durham DL12 8NP
Tel: 01833 690606

www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk NMAS Costume and Textile Study Centre, Norwich
Tel: 01603 223870

www.jen-jones.com/QuiltCentre The Jen Jones Welsh Quilt Centre, The Town Hall, Lampeter, Ceredigion SA48 7BB
Tel: 01570 422088

www.greenknowe.co.uk The Manor,Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 9BN
(Lucy Boston patchworks; viewing by arrangement)
Tel: 01480 463134

www.museumoflondon.org.uk Museum of London, London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN
Tel: 020 7001 9844

www.quilt.org.uk The Quilt Association, The Minerva Arts Centre, High Street, Llanidloes SY18 6BY
Tel: 01686 413467

www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans/ St Fagans: National History Museum, Cardiff CF5 6XB
Tel: 029 2057 3500

www.nmni.com/uftm Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 153 Bangor Road, Holywood, County Down BT18 0EU
Tel: 028 9042 8428

www.vam.ac.uk Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7 2RL
The Museum’s study collections of textiles and fashion are currently unavailable but will reopen in 2013 at Blythe House, Kensington Olympia.
Tel: 020 7942 2000

www.worthingmuseum.co.uk Worthing Museum, Chapel Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 1HP
Tel: 01903 221448

www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk York Castle Museum, Eye of York, York YO1 9RY
The Museum’s costume and textiles collection, including quilts, is currently in store; any enquiry relating to this collection is suspended until 1 January 2014.
Tel:01904 687687

Other useful websites

www.twistedthread.com Festival of Quilts at NEC, Birmingham (Annual quilt show in August)

www.harrismuseum.org.uk Harris Museum & Art Gallery

http://scottishtextileheritage.org.uk Scottish Textiles Heritage Online

http://tmoi.org.uk The Textile Manufactures of India

http://ulita.leeds.ac.uk University of Leeds International Textiles Archive (ULIT)

This list of websites is based on one that first appeared in ‘Quilts on view’ by Katherine James on pages 28–29 in the Winter 2011 issue of The Quilter, the quarterly membership publication of  The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles (www.quiltersguild.org.uk). As well as listing venues, the article offers suggestions on how to track down textiles in your local area.