new page
I have been collecting websites and reference material as I work on my City & Guilds course and I wondered, What If I start to compile a reference page, entitled Source material-click the tab at the top of the blog. It’s not a blog list, but the beginnings of an information archive.
In it I have included links to Museums and Galleries where there are inspirational collections I have used so far; Stitch dictionaries; old and out of print books available in full or part through the Gutenburg project or Google books; sites dedicated to the embroidery of different countries and cultures etc.
I should point out that the list is in its early infancy and I will be adding to it regularly. It might be useful to someone else studying or researching into a particular aspect of needlework.
Please leave me a comment if you regularly use a link that might fit here, or a website you find inspirational. I am not including specifically commercial links here, although some do occur because some commercial sites have excellent and freely available resources. If a site is in my list, it is because of the information I found useful, not because of the availability of a product or because I endorse them in any way.
its funny you are doing this, because i am in the process of doing this very thing. I started the other day putting some of my ‘how to’ posts as pages and then when i was searching my bookmarks i thought i should put them in a list on my blog. great minds, eh? i like the page function on WP
ps – the local honey coloured stone – are you in the cotswolds? i read ‘the map that changed the world’ a few years ago and became a bit obsessed with English geology for a little while
Oh, I have quite a few bookmarked that might fit. Stitch dictionaries: Rissa’s – http://www.prettyimpressivestuff.com/stitches/index.htm; Over the Moon – http://www.overthemoondesigns.com/StitchIndex.htm; Sharon Boggon’s Dictionary of Stitches – http://inaminuteago.com/stitchindex.html; and the video stitch library – http://www.needlenthread.com/2006/10/video-library-of-hand-embroidery.html
That’s a start. =)
Thanks Susan, I have added them to the Source page, I use Sharon’s so much I can’t think why I hadn’t put it in as a foundation site!
hey great idea…..i am starting to add something similar to my threadcrumbs blog….haven’t published it yet. these are great sharing tools…..yippee!
Jude-I think this is one of the great positives of the internet-the sharing of ideas and links.I wish I could come up with the definitive way of organising all the things I find, but this will have to do for the time being.We could do with a sort of Textile Central.
Didn´t find time earlier to have a close look at that wonderful list, but now visited the VA (for the first time ever, online) and some other, no less interesting ones, and will for sure come back to it frequently. Thanks! The obvious carefulness of your journal is inspiring too…
Thank you for compiling this–it will be a wonderful resource! I’ll dig through my bookmarks and see if I have anything to send your way that you don’t already have.