Other Sites of Interest

Joachim and Betty Mendes

Joachim and Betty Mendes have a shop in Brighton, dealing in antique lace, textiles, fans, costume and other associated items. Although this is effectively their online shop window, there is a lot of useful historical information here too, alongside the descriptions of what is for sale. Note that the index is at the bottom of the page, so you need to scroll down to it.
www.mendes.co.uk

Artizania & Artfairs

Artizania & Artfairs specialise in antique costume and textiles, Artizania being an umbrella for dealers, and Artfairs running regular specialist Fairs in Leeds, Malvern and Manchester. There is also a listing of events worldwide. Links, at the bottom of the left-of-page index, lists first UK links, then USA links and, finally, Information Links.
www.artizania.co.uk

The Lace Guild

The Lace Guild exists to promote lacemaking and to this end it runs events and produces publications, all listed here. The Craft of Lace link does give a very brief introduction to the various types of lace.
www.laceguild.demon.co.uk

Lace Making in the 17th Century

This is a single page on lace-making in the 17th century.
www.portsdown.demon.co.uk/lace.htm

Honiton Lace Shop

This is the website of the Honiton Lace Shop, the last remaining lace shop in Honiton itself. It is mainly a commercial site, of course, but there is good information about the history of Honiton lace found from the Lace Questions? link.
www.honitonlace.com

The Lace and Lacemaking Webring

The Lace and Lacemaking Webring Home Page is attractive, with its fine beaded dragon, but not especially clear. To investigate what it has to offer you need to click on Lace & Lacemaking Webring Index, which takes you to a directory of all the websites in the ring, currently one hundred.
www.netcentral.co.uk/~geoffana//lacering/index.html

Tattered

Tattered has the goal of making the art of tatting better known worldwide. There is only a little historical information here but the site is quite detailed and densely packed, and should reward exploration.
www.geocities.com/Heartland/5082/

Workbox Needlecrafts Magazine

Here you will find a backlist of issues of the magazine 'Workbox.' Although these cannot be read online, the descriptions of the contents of each issue are so detailed that you would easily discover whether there had been an article about your own particular collecting interest.
www.ebony.co.uk/workbox/backiss.htm

quilts

Patchwork Quilts - Their Origins and Development

There is a good single page here on the history of patchwork quilts, within what is otherwise the purely commercial website of the Linen, Lace and Patchwork House.
www.llph.co.uk/Patchwork-History.htm

The Quilt Gallery

The Quilt Gallery is a commercial website selling some 1500 quilts at any given time under a number of headings, starting with American Quilts and then Antique Quilts. The sheer number of quilts displayed here makes it an interesting reference point.
www.thequiltgallery.com

Antique Quilt Source

This is also an American online source of antique quilts to buy, particularly those from Pennsylvania. Descriptions are good and thorough, making this too a useful historical resource.
www.antiquequiltsource.com

Antique Quilts

No apologies for listing a third commercial quilt website. This one has two useful links, though neither very detailed, How to Hang a Quilt and How to Wash a Quilt.
www.antiquequilts.com

American Quilts

Finally, one more online 'superstore' displaying both contemporary and antique quilts, especially those made in the Amish community.
www.americanquilts.com