Links

The following are links to other web sites featuring antique textiles, antique carpets, antique american hooked rugs and folk art, persian art and sites that provide information in those areas.

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ONLINE GALLERIES, SEARCH ENGINES, MUSEUMS AND OTHER RELATED SITES

Textile As Art
Antique Textiles
Barakat Gallery
genuine museum quality artifacts
Persia Design
digital gallery, design studio
Anavian Gallery
art and archeaology
Jozan Magazine
articles and information on oriental rugs
Collectible Treasures
antiques and collectibles
Mena Internet Mall
visit the antiques page!
American Conference on Oriental Rugs
Association of US rug societies. Sponsors conferences every two years.

HALI Antique Textile and Art Fair, 2003
Major fair, June 5-8, 2003, in London.
New England Rug Society
A very active rug collector organization.
Kaitag Embroideries
Information about the exhibition and symposium during ICOC-X.
National Museums, Berlin, Germany
A huge web site, with basic information about the collections and a few images. Only in German. Go straight to the Islamic Art Museum.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
A small site, but useful for its link to the National Art Library,
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
A site for the De Young Museum & The Legion of Honor, with some information about the textile collections. Be sure to check out their Imagebase - an amazing database of tens of thousands of items from the collections, including kilims & textiles.
Museum for Textiles, Toronto, Canada
Excellent site from the small Museum for Textiles.

ArtAntiques.com
search the world of art

The Textile Museum

featuring the textile arts

The Metropolitan Museum

intro to antonio ratti textile center

Curioscape

antiquities page

Georgia Mills

Georgia Mills Direct specializes in area rugs

Armenian Rugs and Carpets

Armenian Rug History

Mannam Carpets

Oriental Carpets Rugs Custom-made

Oriental Rug Mart

sell, hand wash, repair, restore, and appraise rugs
Hajji Baba Club
New York based, the oldest society of rug collectors.

Kansas City Oriental Rug and Textile Association Rug collector club.

Philadelphia Oriental Rug Society
A very active rug collector organization.
Muenchen Textile Art
Home page for Munich's annual textile art exhibition.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA
One of the few museums to really give space and prominence to its carpet collections. The Boucher Collection of Belouch rugs is included in the site.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Beautiful site where you can relive the splendour of Flowers Underfoot, 1998's blockbuster Mughal exhibition.

The Textile Museum, Washington DC, USA
Major site for the major museum of rugs & carpets, with plenty of resources for the beginner and good information about upcoming exhibitions and events. Two other sites associated with The Textile Museum are Symmetry & Pattern an on-line version of a past Textile Museum exhibition, co-web-authored by curator Carol Bier and Textile Arts of the Islamic World: Working Bibliographies a useful resource from the Textile Museum Library & curators.