The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles – Region 1
Quilt Related Links to
Last updated 26th July 2008
Other Quilters' Guild UK sites
The Quilters’ Guild of
the British Isles Main site of the Guild run
by the Central office in
Textile Links and Guilds and Educational
Resources
Young Textile Group (Embroiderers' Guild) - wonderful list of
textile website links amongst many other good things
The Crafts
Council of
Indigo
– Information site from
Voirrey Embroidery
Centre (Wirral)
Northern Ireland
Patchwork Guild
Northern Ireland Embroidery Guild
Winchester Textile
Conservation Service (
Association of
Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
London
Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
Axis –
Information site about Contemporary Artists
Scottish
Textile Heritage Online
Crafts Council
Photostore Online
Scottish
Textile Heritage Online
University of Leeds
International Textile Archive
Charity Quilt Projects and
Organisations
Project
Linus UK
Operation
Sunshine Reconditioning Sewing
Machines for use in
Red Cross (Changi
Quilt)
International Links
European Quilting
Association (EQA)
Club Quilt
and Silk (
Il Etait Une Fois
(Boutis, Provencal and Pique Quilt kits)
Laurierboompje
(
Belgian
Association of Patchwork
Northern
Fibre.net (Nordic Countries)
European
Patchwork Association
La
Couserie Creative (
Maiwa Hand Prints
(
Museums, Galleries and Houses with
Textile/Sewing Collections Exhibition Spaces, Historic Buildings, Museums and
Galleries and related Organisations of Interest in Britain
London Area
Victoria and Albert
Museum, South Kensington
New shop just opened
www.vandashop.com
London Sewing
Machine Museum, Tooting Bec,
Guatemalan Indian
Centre Wandsworth,
The Fashion and
Textile Museum,
The Fan Museum
(
MODA
The Horniman
Museum, Forest Hill/Dulwich
Museum
of London,
William Morris
Gallery,
The British Museum,
Tate Gallery,
Museum
of Garden History
Mall Galleries,
William Morris Gallery
(Walthamstow)
National Maritime Museum
London
Open House (Buildings open in
Landmark
Arts Centre (Teddington)
Earth from
the Air (Travelling exhibition of photographs)
Somerset
House The Strand
The
Gilbert Collection (
The British Library
(
Harris Museum and Quilt Gallery (Preston) – website
down at present
Contemporary
Applied Arts (
Chequer
Mead Arts Centre, East Grinstead
Daiwa Anglo
Japanese Foundation (
Hayward Gallery
(
Royal
Academy of Arts (Piccadilly,
Wandsworth
Museum, Wandsworth,
Kew Gardens, Kew
Constance Howard Resource
Centre (Goldsmith’s)
City
of London Art Gallery, Guildhall
Collage
Educational Resource for
London
Transport Museum,
Outside London
Museum of Wales and
Museum of Welsh History, St Fagans
Bowes
Museum,
Beamish Museum,
Whitworth
Art Gallery,
Ulster Folk and
Transport Museum,
Ulster
Museum,
Museum of Science
and Industry (
Sir Richard
Arkwright’s Masson Mills (Matlock Bath, Derbyshire) working textile
museum
The Manor,
Hemingford Grey (Lucy Boston’s quilts)
Fiberart
Gallery, St Ives
Minerva Arts
Centre. Llanidloes, Powys,
Strangers
Hall,
Tullie House,
Worthing
Museum and Art Gallery
University of
Leeds Textiles Archive (ULITA)
Gawthorpe
Hall,
Grace Barrand
Design Centre
Manor House Museum (Bury St
Edmunds)
The Eden Project (
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracy,
Cornwall Heritage Access Information Network
Charleston,
Spinning
the Web (History of the Cotton industry in
Follow
the Yarn (History of the Cotton industry in
Chequer
Mead Arts Centre, East Grinstead
Lady
Lever Art Gallery,
Wigan Leisure
and Culture Trust
Crafts
Study Centre, Farnham,
Museum
of Costume,
Hampshire Museums
Service Passion for Pattern website
Black Swan
Arts Centre, Frome Somerset
Collins
Gallery,
Bath
Fashion Museum (previously the
Pallant House
Gallery (
Haslemere
Museum
Sudeley
Castle, near
Pitt Rivers
Museum,
Stockwood
Park Museum,
Carrow
House,
See also the Virtual
Library Museums website for a
comprehensive list of links to museums around the
Useful Listings and Information sites for
the London area
The London
Directory Useful lists of shops
under headings Art and Crafts, Haberdashers, Buttons, Buckles and Beads, Fabric
Shops
Quilt Show Organisers in the
Grosvenor
Exhibitions (Organisers of the National Quilt Championships, Spring and
Autumn Quilt Festivals and Quilts
For more details of shows and events see our Quilting and
Textile Events page
ICHF (Organizers
of Creative Stitches, Sewing for Pleasure and Be Inspired)
Creative
Exhibitions Ltd. Co-organiser with the
Quilters Guild of the Festival of Quilts.
Also runs the Knitting and Stitching show 020 8692 2299 Mail@eventorg.demon.co.uk. Details on Twisted Thread website.
Quilting and Textile Courses and
Conferences
City and
Guilds Creative Studies Courses including Patchwork and Quilting
(Course ref Creative Studies 7900) and Embroidery
La
Maison du Patchwork (
Maria
Peters Workshops (
Missenden
Abbey (Bucks)
Opus School
of Textile Arts (
Normandy
Textile Workshop (
Ferncliffe
Patchwork (
Goldsmiths
College – Visual Arts Dept,
Workshop
on the Web (Maggie Grey)
SilkWorks Silk Painting and Craft Studio, Barnes
Laurel
Crafts (Derbyshire)
Morley
College (
West Dean
College (
TELA
(UMIST) Online teaching resource for
textiles
Crafts
Study Centre Farnham Surrey, Farnham Campus of Surrey Institute of Art and
Design
Quilters
and Shakers of New England
Maison
d’etre Holidays (boutis and needlework,
The
Beetroot Tree (Draycott, Derbyshire)
Cabot
Quilting Conferences (
Ashpole
Barn Studio (Northants)
Cowslipworkshops
(Launceston,
The Quilt
Association Spring Workshops now
booking including teachers Doreen Gough, Sonia Fox, Barbara Weeks, Gail Lawther
and Sue Owen
Val
Holmes Embroidery in France
Manor House Hotel (Okehampton,
Morley
College
Stone
Creek Silks (Ruth Brown)
Richmond Adult
Community College
Westhope Craft
College, Shropshire
Websites of Quilt, Craft and Textile Suppliers
There are NO Specialist Quilt shops in Central
London, although shops such as Liberty carry ranges of specialist fabric
including Kaffe Fassett/Rowan and a few quilting supplies
London area
Liberty
of London (
Wimbledon Sewing
Machines (Balham and South Wimbledon)
Craft shop and Sewing Machine retailer with branches in Wimbledon for
Domestic Sewing Machines (tube South Wimbledon) and Balham for Industrial
machines and Craft Shop including quilting. (tube Tooting Bec)
Patchworks
and Quilts of
Green
Mountain Quilts and Crafts (
Creative Quilting (
Wolfin
Textiles (
Beadworks
(
Carol’s
Patch (Mail order and groups)
MacCulloch
and Wallis (Dering Street
Rembrandt Arts and Crafts
(Richmond/East Twickenham)
EuroJapan
Links (mail order and shows)
Loop
(Islington – mainly knitting)
Chawla’s
(Hounslow)
The Sewing
Rooms (Putney)
The Cloth House
(
World of Sewing (Croydon, Bromley and Tunbridge Wells – part of Bromley Sewing Machines)
Quilt
Pieces (mail order and groups, New Zealand Fabrics, based in Wimbledon,
Tikki Limited,
Kew London, new shop in the premises of Stitch in Time.
South East
England
Contented
Cat Joyce
Dawe, Mail order, shows and internet only
Rio Designs
Lawrence Dawe (Computer software and consumables for quilters)
House of
Patchwork (Hertfordshire)
Sunflower
Fabrics (
Village
Fabrics (
The Quilt Room
(Dorking,
Rainbow
Silks(Amersham Bucks)
The Crafty
Quilter (
The
Needle Workshop (Bedfordshire)
Just
Between Friends (Essex)
Creations
Direct (
Patch Flora
(
Thimbellina Weedon, Northants
Lady Sew
and Sew (Marlow, Bucks)
So Sew
(Pitsea, Essex)
The
Bramble Patch (Weedon, Northants)
And
Sew On (
The Cherry
Orchard (
Threads
and Patches (Buckinghamshire)
Stitchcrafts
(Herts)
Patchwork
Passion (
Country
at Heart (
Top
Stitch (Wisbech, Cambs)
Sew Creative
Crafts (
Threads
and Patches (Bletchingley, nr
Inches to
Metres (Newbury, Berks) Closing
down.
NC Textiles
(Guildford,
Fabric
Company (
Whitchurch
Silk Mill (Hampshire)
Daisy
Chain Designs (mail order)
Kit and
Caboodle (mail order)
Inca Studio
(Princes Risborough, Bucks), sadly this shop is closing in the Autumn of 2007
as the owners are retiring
The Quilting
Bee (
Crafty Fabrics
(
Simply Silk
(
The Silk
Route (mail order)
The World of
Sewing. Shops in Tunbridge Wells,
Bromley, Croydon and Bexleyheath
Cade Craft (
Antique
Angel (mail order only)
The
Log Cabin (Ramsbury, nr
Fibrecrafts
(Peasmarsh,
Cressett
Crafts (
Threads
and Patches (Bletchley, Bucks)
Rustic
Angel (mail order and by appointment, Long Wittenham Oxfordshire)
The Fent Shop,
The
Log Cabin, Brentwood
And
Sew On
Sew
Primitive Mail order
Scanlans
(Sheerness,
Pandorion
Beads (Colchester
Dormouse
Quilts and Needlecrafts (Shop closes on 1st May 2007)
Puddleducks
(
Thread Bear,
South Croydon,
Patchwork
Dog and Basket (Cuckfield,
Fibrecrafts
(
Just Sew (
Karry Dot
Com (mail order and shows)
Piecemakers of Epsom
and
Quilt Pieces
(mail order and groups, New Zealand Fabrics, based in Wimbledon,
The Thread
Emporium (Camberley Surrey)
Shops and Quilting Suppliers
elsewhere in the UK
The
Colour Room (Mildenhall,
The
Patcher's Barrel (
Pauline’s
Patchwork (
English
Quilt Company-Starmakers (
Aunt Jemimahs
(Clitheroe,
Jan
Jefferson –JJN Amish Quilts
Little L’s
Fabrics (
Leven Crafts
(Guisborough, Cleveland)
Campden
Quilters Patch (Glos)
Patchwork
Gallery (Knutsford,
The Cotton
Patch (
The Viking
Loom (
Piglets
Patch, (
Patchwork
Direct (Derbyshire)
Strawberry
Fayre (Mail order only)
Mandors (
Step
by Step Patchwork Centre (South Molton,
Sew and So’s
(Bungay Suffolk)
Creative
Grids(
Thimbles
Market Drayton (
Patchwork
Plus (Grange over Sands,
Barry’s
(Birmingham) and Leon’s (Manchester)
Abigail
Crafts (Glos)
Becky
Sharp’s Quilting (Wirral)
Quilters
Cupboard (Torbay,
Heirs and
Graces (Bakewell, Derbyshire)
Craft-Box
(Liskeard,
Crescent
Needlecrafts (Spalding Lincolnshire)
The Skep Mill
Shop (Pudsey, Leeds,
Dreamcatcher
Quilts (Rhiwbina,
Patch Pride
(
Embsay Crafts
(Skipton,
Laurel
Crafts (
Textile
Techniques(
Natural
Dye Studio (Amanda Perkins, naturally dyed fabrics)
Patchworks
(
The
African Fabric Shop (Magie Relph)
Doughtys
(
Quilting
Solutions (Jan Chandler – longarm quilting)
Hannah’s
Room (Barnsley,
Super
Quilter – Martin Distribution
Windsor
Crafts, Dudley,
The Whitby
Quilt shop
Crafts and
Quilts (
Time
Machine Quilting (
Kekfesto
Cotton Hungarian blue and white
cotton for patchwork, mail order only
Wisteria
Patchwork (Swinderby,
Heaths
Country Store including Dee’s Patchwork Barn (Nottinghamshire)
Frome
Valley Quilting, (Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire)
Christine’s
Cottage Crafts (St Neots, Cambridgeshire)
Inhouse
Quilting (Narberth, Pembrokeshire)
The Cotton
Angel (Monmouth,
Crafty Fabrics
(Bude Cornwall – mail order only)
Images of
Egypt (
The
Needle Workshop (mail order)
Zama Arts and
Crafts (Alfreton, Derbyshire)
Winifred
Cottage (mail order)
Monkey
Buttons Patterns by Amanda Hall
Cheryl
Hart Textiles (Pyle, Mid Glamorgan)
Quilters
Quorum,
Frome
Valley Quilting, Frampton Cotterell, Gloucs
Stitch ‘n’ Craft,
Shaftesbury,
Marion’s
Patchworks, Sketty,
Custom
Quilting (Beryl Cadman, longarm quilter,
The
Little Lavender Patch (mail order only and shows)
Antique
Crafts (mail order)
Fabrix
(Lancaster)
Midsomer
Quilting (Chilhampton,
Zama Arts and
Crafts (Riddings, Derbyshire)
The
Pumpkin Patch (Hawling, nr
The
Cats Whiskers (Wadebridge,
Wye Needlecraft
(Bakewell, Derbyshire)
Tadorna
Quilting (
The Bubble
Patch (Oswaldtwistle,
Clothaholics
(mail order and shows, vintage kimono fabrics and upholstery fabrics)
Fat
Quarter Quilters Mail order
Father’s
Heart Country Quilting
Stitch n
Craft (Shaftesbury Dorset)
Quilters
Quorum (nr Ripon Yorks)
Irving
House Studio (Kessingland,
Penny
Pot Patchwork (Harrogate,
Sewing
Centre (Scarborough,
Pembertons Sewing
and Craft Centre (
Cotton
Dreams (
Kaleidoscope
(nr
Blue Leaf
Studio/ Callishibori
Cowslipworkshops
(Launceston,
Father’s
Heart Country Quilting (Bradford Yorks)
Sew
Primitive (mail order)
Calico Kate
(Lampeter, Ceredigion)
Mary’s Patch
(mail order)
Wisteria
Patchwork (Lincs)
Abigail
Crafts (Stonehouse Gloucs)
Heirs
and Graces (Darley Dale, Derbyshire)
Kekfesto
Cottons (
Quilt Pieces
(previously Sweet Pea Patchwork and Quilting)
Fabric
Inspirations online shop
Quilt Pieces
online shop
Sewing
the Seeds (Torquay)
Bishopston
Trading,
Patchwork
Pals Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Fabric Manufacturers in the
Woodrow
Studio Ltd (Erlanger Group ltd)
Threads and Embroidery
Monika Carrie Design. Valdani variegated cotton thread
Marathon
Machine Embroidery Threads
Ani Catt
Bottom Line Threads and Long Arm Quilter and Teacher based in
Textile and Craft sites