The past few weeks I've taken a deep dive into exploring extant textiles, partially because I'm trying to have a small side business to help support my geek, but more so because I am fascinated by fabrics.
Two really cool collections that I didn't know existed online are the-
RISD Museum textile collection which seems to have a wide variety of textiles from around the globe, but leans heavy into the European side of things, and isn't really searchable, but still helpful.
Ashmolean- Eastern art online Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art They have a huge data base for Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese. Spanning from Egypt to Japan. The collections are divided by Culture, and in the case of the Islamic collections by colors too. The information on each piece is very detailed.
The Met is also a very valuable resource for textiles, they are generally grouped within Culture and you might have to use the advanced search to narrow down your options, but they generally have detailed information about it.
One of the things that I am learning though this fixation is that textiles were a lot more moveable than I previously imagined. I'm seeing many fabrics made in India that are in Egypt. A lot of textiles with Arabic on them associated with Italy or Prague even. Also my perceptions of what I thought were clear stylistic divisions in culture and time period are not as compartmentalized as I thought.
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