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Links
American
Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
http://aic.stanford.edu
Provides information for caring for your collections
Association
of Art Museum Directors
www.amn.org
Lists other museums and their websites
Cultural
Alliance of Greater Washington
www.cultural-alliance.org
Dedicated
to sustaining and increasing leadership, appreciation,
support and resources for arts and culture in the Washington,
DC region
Cultural
Tourism DC
www.culturaltourismdc.org
Information on neighborhood tours, cultural attractions, and
living history events in Washington, DC
Destination DC
www.washington.org
Tourist and visitor information for Washington, DC
Handweavers
Guild of America, Inc.
www.weavespindye.org
An international, nonprofit, member organization that is dedicated
to supporting and encouraging the fiber arts, as well as preserving
our textile cultural heritage
International
Conference on Oriental Carpets
http://icoc-orientalrugs.org/
http://icoc-istanbul.org/
The International
Conference on Oriental Carpets is dedicated to advancing the understanding
of carpet and related textile arts, primarily of the eastern hemisphere
Julie: Artisans' Gallery
http://www.julieartisans.com/
Julie: Artisans' Gallery, located on Madison Ave in New York City, was the first gallery devoted to handmade clothing as an art form. This phenomenon is also known as Wearable Art or Art to Wear (art-to-wear).
North American
Textile Conservation Conference (NATCC)
http://www.textilemuseum.org/natcc/main.htm
The Textile
Museum was a proud institutional sponsor of the 6th Biennial North
American Textile Conservation Conference (NATCC), which was held in
Washington, DC November 6-9, 2007
Symmetry
& Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/geometry/rugs/
Based on a 1996 exhibition at The Textile Museum
Textile
Arts of the Islamic World: Working Bibliographies
www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/Textiles/Textiles.html
Compiled by the Eastern Hemisphere Curatorial Department at
The Textile Museum over 50 bibliographies of interest to anyone
pursuing studies of textile arts of the Islamic world. Most of
the materials cited are available in The Arthur D. Jenkins Library,
a non-circulating research library at The Textile Museum.
Textile
Society of America
http://textilesociety.org
The Textile Society of America provides a forum for the exchange
and dissemination of information about all aspects of textiles:
historic, artistic, cultural, social, political, economic, and
technical. This website includes information on membership, symposia,
publications and job postings.
Textile
Study Group of New York
http://tsgny.org/
The Textile Study Group of New York is a not-for-profit organization
committed to promoting the fiber arts.
Washington
Conservation Guild
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/wcg/
A forum for learning more about preservation of art and artifacts
in the Washington, DC area
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