AGWSD links to useful online resources

These links are provided as a service and do not constitute an endorsement by the Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers.

Links to the web sites of Guilds affiliated to the Association may be found via the Guilds page.

Please advise secretary@wsd.org.uk if you find any links which are no longer functional or that the destination content is inappropriate to our members.

Requests for inclusion in the listings should be addressed to the AGWSD secretary and are subject to AGWSD approval.

Campaign for wool

Campaign for Wool – link to website
http://www.campaignforwool.org/

BBC Get Creative

The Association signed up to the BBC Get Creative initiative
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/sections/get-creative

Breed societies

British Coloured Sheep Breeders Association

Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders Association UK

Weaving, Spinning and Dyeing

The Braid Society

British Tapestry Group

Creative Fibre (New Zealand) (formerly the NZ Spinning, Weaving and Woolcrafts Society)

Worshipful Company of Dyers

The Fibre Lab

Handweavers Guild of America

Information about Tablet Weaving, Kumihimo and Ply-Splitting

Longest thread competition, Bothwell, Tasmania

Natural Dyes International. International organisation to research natural dyes and pigments

Tasmania Guild of Handweavers, Spinners and Dyers

Other organisation relating to our Crafts

UK Hand Knitting Association

Campaign for Wool

The Crafts Council (UK)

Craft Scotland

Craft Council for Wales

European Textile Network

The Fibre Lab

Guild of Silk Painters

Heritage Crafts Association

International Feltmakers Association

The Knitting and Crochet Guild

Textile Institute (Manchester, UK)

The Textile Society

Voluntary Arts – help and advice for organisations run by volunteers