One of the goals of this study group is to compile resources including: annotated bibliographies on archaeological textiles from different times and places, or of different structures; museums with online textile collections; and relevant websites.
Member Carolyn Priest-Dorman's annotated bibliography for early and medieval textiles (also archived here).
Member Deb McClintock has contributed a bibliography on Southeast Asian textiles (pdf).
Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia: Paintings, Sculpture, Machinery and mechanisms, Arms and armour, Furniture and carriages, Ceramics and porcelain, Applied arts, Jewellery, Textiles, Numismatics and glyptics, Costume, Archaeological artifacts. Textiles: lots of tapestries, some lace, embroidery (lots of 18-19th c., some earlier), tassels and fringe (17-19th)
Victoria and Albert, London, England: One of the better online collections, with many items, good organization, and lots of detail.
British Museum, London, England: Highlights only -- 4000 items, organized by culture, place, material
Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska Museet), Stockholm, Sweden: Tremendous resource for Scandinavian artifacts -- lots of Viking and medieval data. Search is in Swedish. There is a Google translate button to help you get started. If you click on "Föremål", you are taken to a search page that also provides complete lists of search words for different categories (item, material, etc).
Swedish National Museum (Nationalmuseum), Stockholm, Sweden: Some good things, but a slog to find them as there seems to be no keyword search.
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland: Not much textile content.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia: Asian textiles especially. Good Indonesian collection, but the search function is awful.
Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Nice browse functions. Search for "card woven" instead of "tablet woven."
The Textile Museum, Washington DC, United States: Can browse current and past exhibitions, highlights; as yet no general search function.
Gotlands Museum, Visby, Sweden: Swedish-language search page.
National Museum of DenmarkKøbenhavn, Denmark: Danish-language search page (the English page is less complete. Try searching for "Mammen" to see the textile finds.
Textiles, Netherlands: Browse the Collectie Nederland: Musea, Monumenten en Archeologie.
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Searchable online database with some textile content.
US National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, United States: Searchable online database with some textile content.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK: Primarily Egyptian textiles.
Institut für mittelalterliche Realienkunde, Salzburg, Austria: Search for "Textilie" in "Materielle Objekte".
Royal Institute for the Artistic Heritage of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium: Searchable database of photos.
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, UK: Some wonderful items, but poor photographs.
Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium: Textiles include sprang and tablet weaving, but very low-resolution photographs.
Our predecessor, the Medieval Textiles study group, has an archive of wonderful information (see Files for copies of newsletters 19-38), and a gallery. Medieval Textiles study group newsletters and samples can be borrowed from the Complex Weavers library by members of CW.
The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research, housed at the University of Copenhagen, has all sorts of exciting things going on. Some of their project pages have lists of related publications.
DressID, an interdisciplinary research group that studies Roman Age clothing and textiles.
The Norwegian Textile Letter covers modern and historical textiles, including reproduction efforts for archaeological textiles.
Archaeological Textiles Review (formerly Archaeological Textiles Newsletter) covers mostly European and west Asian archaeological textiles. At this website you can become a member, buy back issues of the excellent publication, and download the small number of back issues they've made available for free.
One of the authors, Don Wagner, has made a PDF version of Pattern and Loom available online.
The Centre International d\'Etude des Textiles Anciens has made the formerly hard to find back issues of CIETA Bulletin (1 - 64) available online.
On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics.
Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin offers a full-text archive of anthrolopological publications, mainly in German, with some textile content.
There is a searchable database accompanying Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England, AD 450-700 (Penelope Walton Rogers, 2007). The whole archives are worth some serious time.
The lexis of cloth and clothing in Britain c. 700-1450: origins, identification, contexts and change is a database of textual references to cloth and clothing. Think "OED for textile terms in English" and you're not far off the mark.
Please send additional resources to chair at archaeologicaltextiles dot net.