Links of Interest

Kindred Spirits

ATASDA - Australian Textile Arts & Surface Design Association Inc.

Australian Lace Guild, Queensland

BVAC - Brisbane Visual Arts Community

Gold Coast and Hinterland Spinners and Weavers Group Inc.

Queensland Quilters Inc

Queensland Spinners, Weavers and Fibre Artists

Surface Design Association

TAFTA - The Australian Forum for Textile Arts

TMAC - Tamborine Mountain Arts Collective

The Embroiderers' Guild, Queensland Inc.

Suppliers

Beautiful Silks - Fabrics, fibres threads, yarns and embellishments with particular emphasis on natural fibres for dyeing and felting, including silk, wool, linen and cotton.  Warrnambool, Victoria.

Fibre Arts Shed - sells raw materials and tools to fibre artists, including animal & plant fibres, batts, prefelts, yarns, tools & dyes.  Jilliby, NSW.

Kraftkolour -  supplier to textile artists, fabric printers, spinners, weavers and dyers.  Extensive range of dyes and dyeing auxiliaries plus a large range of textile paints & inks; fabrics and fibres suitable for dyeing and felting.  Whittlesea, Victoria.

Over the Rainbow - beads, mixed media, polymer clay, resin & jewellery making supplies.  Seaford, Victoria.

Silksational - wide range of items for the textile artist including silk painting supplies such as silk and dyes; dyeing supplies such as powdered dye, chemicals, beakers, pots; fibres and woollen prefelts; silk clothing blanks, silk scarves and sarongs, silk cushion covers and silk, wool, cotton, silk-bamboo and linen by the metre. Western Sydney, NSW.

String Harvest - an online store for crafters, yarn lovers and artisans interested in the unusual and hard to find, including fair trade and ethically sourced raffia, jute and hemp alongside rare, obsolete designer Italian yarns and luxury Japanese fibres. Southport, Qld.

The Bead Shed - beading, feathers, haberdashery, costume and jewellery making supplies specialist.  They have beautiful laces and trims, and lots of other items that are good for textile art - all very reasonably priced. Open every day except Mondays 9am to 3.30 pm at Carrara Markets, Qld.

The Thread Studio - specialises in unusual and interesting embroidery threads, hand dyed fibres and fabrics, and textile art and mixed media supplies. Perth, WA

Treetops Colour Harmonies - superfine merino wool roving, silk fibre (tops, hankies and throwsters waste) and fabric by the metre for nuno felting. Floreat, WA.