Major textile collections, archives and online databases

University of Leeds Textile Archive

Scottish Textile Heritage Online: access to Scottish museum collections

Heritage of the East Midlands Knitting Industry

University of Bradford : archive of Bradford Textile production and teaching

Common Threads: museum textile collections in the Midlands

University of Cambridge Museums of Archaeology and Anthropology: world textile/ethnographic collections

AHDS archive : world textiles from Farnham College for Creative Arts

Specialist organisations

The Costume Society www.costumesociety.org.uk

The Textile Institute www.thetextileinstitute.org

Local Links

George Plunkett’s Photographs of Old Norwich

East Anglian Film Archive

Norfolk Heritage Centre (at the Millenium Library)

Dragon Hall, King Street, Norwich, a unique 15th century merchant’s trading hall

NRO Norfolk Record Office at the Archive Centre

Search for local history records, seminars and advice at Virtual Norfolk. The site contains a section on the Norwich Strangers.

Repositories of Norwich-made Textiles (international)

Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London for Norwich–made textiles and the John Kelly pattern book

Nordiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden for Norwich pattern books

Winterthur Museum & Archive, Delaware, USA for Norwich pattern books