So much interesting material from library and museum collections is becoming available online. It must be intensive work to get it up there, and it seems now as if the technology has been learned and the labour put in, and now we are getting the results. The latest example that caught my attention was the Sydney Powerhouse Museum’s Electronic Swatchbook which displays fabric designs from the 1830s to the 1920s.

Out of curiosity just then I went to check on the Victoria and Albert Museum of Decorative Arts. I visited there many years ago, and loved their collection of textiles, embroidery, laces and so on. They also now have an online image database.