Scottish Textile Heritage Online was one of 13 projects supported by the Scottish Executive’s Strategic Change Fund, administered by the Scottish Museums Council. The overall aim of the Fund was to promote strategic change through funding projects that delivered or tested sustainable outcomes.

This innovative pilot project for the first time provides a one-stop guide to Scottish textile collections. This website contains a searchable database of approximately 3000 descriptions of textile related museum and archive collections and objects, along with a gallery of some 400 images. An online resources section contains essays on a wide range of textile related subjects, and maps show the distribution of the textile collections across Scotland.

This project has now ended. For further information about the collections featured on this website, contact the project partners.

A Scottish Textile Steering Group has been formed to promote collaboration among collections managers and users.

If you would like to find out more, please contact:

Matthew Jarron, Convener: museum@dundee.ac.uk
Helen Taylor, Secretary: archive@hw.ac.uk