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AHDS Visual Arts is pleased to announce the release of a major new resource from The Textiles Collection at the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. Containing over 3000 artefacts, The Textiles Collection ranges from Coptic textiles dating from 800-1000 AD through to British woollen cloths, Kashmir shawls, African strip weaving and Scandinavian furnishing fabrics from 1950 to 1990. Linda Brassington, Teaching Fellow 2005-06 and Senior Lecturer in Printed Textiles at the University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham Campus, stresses the importance of The Textiles Collection as an educational resource for practitioners and historians and as a foundation for new research, "This rich and stimulating collection of world textiles has supported the practical study of woven and printed textiles for over forty years." Now, in a digital form, the resource illustrates the visual and tactile subtleties of textiles in a two-dimensional environment. Each image has been carefully created to describe the particular qualities of its subject - expressing the fold and drape of a textile; communicating the fibre, structure and finish of woven cloths; and illustrating pattern, repeat and scale in printed fabrics. Many notable designers and hand weavers of the twentieth century are represented and with the addition of The Textiles Collection AHDS Visual Arts now has an invaluable catalogue of textile-based resources for research, learning and teaching. Browse and Search The Textiles Collection at: www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/ST.html Browse and search the entire AHDS Visual Arts catalogue at: www.visualarts.ahds.ac.uk. For more information contact [log in to unmask] or Tel 01252 892723 For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2006 at http://www.arlis.org.uk/even/