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Americas
ACOR - American Conference on Oriental Rugs
Armenian Rug Society Armenian focused society based in California
Marquand Books Specialist bookseller LA USA
New England Rug Society - Rug society based in NE USA.
Oriental Rug Review alas ceased publication in 1996 / Ron O'Callaghan
Spongobongo Barry O'Connell's Rug guide
Textile Museum, Washington DC USA
Turkotek Rug articles and news
Asia and Far East
Hazara minority of Central Afghanistan
Karakalpak.com South Aral specialists ( UK based )
International Dunhuang Project Multilingual website devoted to Eastern Silk Road Studies
Oxuscom.com/CA-Websites.htm List of Central Asian websites
Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong branch
Sarawak, Malaysia Society of Arts & Crafts - The Arts & Crafts Society of Sarawak, Malaysia
Shibori Info on Japanese techniques
Silk Road Journal scientific articles on Mid Asia Ditto other page
Steppe a Central Asian focus magazine ( UK based )
Tibet charting the dispossession
Tribal Textiles Info - Resource for SE Asian and S China textiles ( UK )
Wangden Rug Project (Tibet) encouragement of traditional rug weaving in provincial Tibet
Australasia
Tom Fereday Sydney based Design Consultancy
NRT Sydney's finest
Europe
Abbeg-Stifftung Textile Museum , Switzerland
Anna Wanner Textile exhibition and publication list
Lyon Textile Museum Musées des Tissus et des Arts décorative de Lyon , France
International & Technical
CIETA . International Standards of reference for textiles, based at Lyon France
Phrontistery Lexicon for textile terms and definitions.
IT.
Code-J Website development & maintenance, FileMaker development (FBA Member)
Tom Fereday Sydney based Design Consultancy
International & Technical
International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC) Conference every four years next is New York 2014(?)
http://www.textilemagazines.com/ Gateway for technical textile journals
Misc. & NGOs
Afghan Action Afghan Charity
Amnesty International Campaigning for political prisoners
Centre for Aternative Technology Technological and Design solutions
Fitwatch - tracking policing
Greenpeace Environment Issues
Global Witness Corruption and Ecology
Intermediate Technology Design sustainable solutions
Institute for War & Peace Reporting .
Lend with care - Micro ethical finance
Liberty Campaigning for Civil Liberties
Mag Arms Trade watch
Reprieve Legal representation issues
Seismic Activity Monitor tracking earth tremors
Survival International Support for marginal communities
Near & Middle East
Cairo news and it's recent textile Museum
Council for British Research in the Levant Principally archaeology Turkey , Jordan , Jerusalem and UK
Cornucopia Magazine quality Anglo-Turkish magazine
Kenthabar - secular architectural listings Istanbul ( Turkish language )
Palestine charting dispossessions
Rabiah - Convert dates etc. Islamic Hijri to Gregorian / vica-versa
Turkish Regional map useful map showing regional administrative districts
Travel / Freight
Mercator - UK and International Marine Cargo
Regency Shipping - UK and International Air Cargo
UK / Eire Locations
ArcA2Ahives of UK Universities & Colleges UK Umbrella for access to National Archives inc. regional Museums/ Libraries/Records. England and Wales
Bishopsgate Institute including Bishopsgate Library, London UK
Brighton & Hove Museum ( Green Centre ) - Green Collection of Burmese Textiles and non Western Art
British Library UK
British Museum (Ethnography Dept.) UK
Burrell Collection , Glasgow , Scotland UK
Culture 24 4,000 Cultural centres in UK
Ditchling Museum includes work of textiles artists in this Sussex Museum
English Heritage a department of UK Government
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge , UK
George Fereday - Design and Resources
Gideon Hatch Bespoke and New Carpets
Haliden of Bath UK's second oldest rug website
HALI Hali Magazine web pages - UK based International magazine on carpets and textiles
Horniman Museum - London's lesser known ethnographical museum
Iran Society London chapter
Legge Christopher , Chris & Angela Legge, Oxford UK
Museums & Galleries Commission Database UK
Muslim Heritage Islamic History pubications based in UK
Oriental Rug and Textile Society ORTS GB UK
Oxianna Books Specialist bookseller , London UK
Pitt Rivers Museum (Ethnographic) Ethnographic Museum , Oxford UK
Owen Parry dealing in the land of his Fathers
Portobello Road ( online ) and secondly 2
Private Eye informative and satirical magazine
Rugrabbit.com for Tribal Rugs A sort of ReBay for tribal rug dealers on-line otherwise known as Rug Rabid and Drug Habit etc anon
Royal Asiatic Society London UK
Selvedge Textile Publication ( UK )
Shetland Isles Museum photographic resource of knittting photographs etc., Scotland UK
SOAS / London Middle East Institute ( London School of Oriental and African Studies / The London Middle East Institute )
Stroud International Textiles Stroud International Textile Festival
Textile Magazines ( listings )
Textile Society UK
Thermo Lignum Ecological Insect Pest Eradication
Thunderstrand Walter Brew / repairs and services
Traid Recycle Recycle unwanted textiles and clothes
Twist Magazine
ULITA University of Leeds International Textile Archive
Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK
Wraysbury.com Local village web site
