Textile Collections - Clothworkers

 

Textile Collections

 
Textile Collections
The Clothworkers’ Company does not hold collections of historic textiles. These sites relate to collections of historic textiles held in museums across the United Kingdom.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
www.ashmolean.org/

Bradford Textile Archive
(currently closed)

Braintree Museum, Essex
www.braintree.gov.uk/Braintree/leisure/Warner Archive

Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles
www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/constance-howard/index.html

Crafts Study Centre collection at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, Farnham 
www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk/

Macclesfield Silk Museum 
www.macclesfield.silk.museum/Visitor/Section/Default.asp?idDepartment=0

Museum of the Lancashire Textile Industry, Helmshore, Lancashire
(no website at present)

National Wool Museum, Wales 
www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/wool/

University of Leeds International Textiles Archive 
www.leeds.ac.uk/ulita/

Victoria and Albert Museum 
www.vam.ac.uk

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 
www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk

There are small collections of textiles and costume in many smaller museums. For further information about textile collections of local significance, you may wish to search the Cornucopia site 
www.cornucopia.org.uk