Recommended websites:
ACTTAA Members' websites Supplies Information Links Galleries Wearable Art Parades Organisations Craft Shows Collage Images Fashion Hat links & blogs Techniques & Patterns Sales Opportunities
www.flairwear.biz
www.handmadeglassbeads.com.au
Supplies
Althea’s Needles & Threads Online
www.ggcreations.com.au/althea
Big range including unusual supplies
Batik Oetoro
www.dyeman.com
Dyeing supplies
Elsegood fabrics
www.elsegood.com.au
Silks, scarf blanks.
Empire Beads (formerly Bead Co. of Aust.)
www.empirebeads.com.au
Extensive range of beads & findings
Folkwear
www.folkwear.com
Historical & ethnic patterns
Kraft Kolour
www.kraftkolour.com.au
Lacis
www.lacis.com
US store specializing in historical needlework tools & techniques
Perpetual Patterns
www.perpetualpatterns.com.au
Australian source of Folkwear patterns and other good stuff
The Thread Studio
www.thethreadstudio.com
Everything for the textile artist
Trimmings & Remnants
www.trimnrem.com.au
Trims, fringe, ribbons etc.
Ziguzagu
www.ziguzagu.net
Japanese textile market
Information
Costumer’s Manifesto
www.costumes.org
Everything about costume
International Shibori Symposium
www.shibori.org
Everything about the Japanese art of fabric manipulation
Links
Australian Silkworm Links
www.australiansilkworm.com
100s of links for silk, textile and other artists worldwide
Cyberfibres
www.cyberfibres.rmit.edu.au
Lots of links
Galleries
Canberra Museum and Gallery
www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au
Local Museum/Gallery which often showcases local textile arts
Craft ACT
www.craftact.org.au
Local Craft artists organisation
National Gallery of Australia
www.nga.gov.au
Sometimes has textile/craft exhibitions
Powerhouse Museum
www.phm.gov.au
Has extensive Textile collections
Wearable Art Parades
Fashion Fantasia
www.fashionfantasia.com.au
Tasmanian Wearable Art Parade
Flairwear
http://www.flairwear.biz/
Local Wearable Art Parade
NZ World of Wearable Art
www.worldofwearableart.com
Everything you need to know about WOW
The Australian Wool Fashion Award
www.tawfa.com.au
National Fashion Competition
Organisations
Arts Hub
www.artshub.com.au
Jobs in the arts industry
ATASDA
www.atasda.org.au
Sydney version of TASDA
National Association for the Visual Arts
www.visualarts.net.au
Peak body for the Visual Arts in Australia
The Australian Forum for Textile Arts
www.ggcreations.com.au/tafta
Home of Forum
Craft Shows
Australasian Quilt Convention
www.aqc.com.au
Large quilt convention
Australian Craft & Quilt Fair
www.craftfair.com.au
Annual visiting craft fair
Gorman House Markets
www.gormanhouse.com.au
Local craft/arts market
Old Bus Depot Markets
www.obdm.com.au
Royal Canberra Show
www.rncas.org.au
Annual Textile exhibition
Collage images
www.artchixstudio.com
www.lostaussie.com
www.picturetrail.com
www.thecre8tivei.com
www.tracyroos.com
www.tuscanrose.com
www.vintageclipart.com
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0IIR10UpWqw&feature=related
www.diynetwork.com/diy/na_knitting/article
http://au.youtube.com/user/troutstail
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=OiS6Y8Uz-Uo
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