Overview

ULITA collects, preserves and documents textiles and other related design material from most of the major textile-producing areas of the world for the benefit of the public, to promote public access to its Textiles Museum, the public use of the collections, their educational use, and to promote research and publication of the collections and related areas.

ULITA now has a worldwide collections of textiles, including over 1,000 pattern books of 19th and 20th century, industrially produced, printed or woven textile samples from British and other European sources, Qing dynasty silk embroideries and woven tapestries, Kashmir and Paisley shawls, Mediterranean and near East embroideries, hand-block-printed and resist-patterned cottons from Pakistan, Javanese batiks, modern British woven and printed fabrics, fibre and yarn samples, glass plate photographic slides of textile machinery, and textile design work.

ULITA has a programme of exhibitions of its own or associated collections. Please see the website or contact ULITA for details.

Admission is free.