ULITA an Archive of International Textiles

General information

The purpose of the Archive of International Textiles (ULITA) is to collect, preserve and document textiles and other related items from many of the textile producing areas of the world for the benefit of scholars, researchers and the general public.

ULITA holds a world wide collection of textiles,including pattern books of nineteenth and twentieth century industrially produced printed and woven textile samples, 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 photographic plates of textile machinery, and textile design work.