Anyone familiar with Belgium's great reputation in the field won't be surprised when I say that, while searching for textile museums in that country, I found countless references to the finest bobbin laces and the most sumptuous tapestries.  Not to imply that the results of the search were predictable to the point of becoming boring, but here are three pages with unexpected subjects, which would have made the search worthwhile on their own:  

It happens to me quite often that I only learn about a museum with an interesting textile collection after I come back from visiting the city where it is located.  

Certainly, one can find on Internet plenty of sites with tourist or cultural information on cities or countries, or even lists of all the museums in the world, but many non-specialised museums tend to hide the textile-related objects at the bottom of their catalogues or their less prominent web pages. What I try to do here is to limit the list to museums with some kind of textile collection while keeping it as complete as possible.

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A finales de 2006 realicé una encuesta sobre el método de elaboración de la tortilla de patata entre mis amigos y compañeros de trabajo. Tras varios meses de ardua labor de tratamiento de los cuestionarios y análisis de los datos, logré extraer las siguiente conclusiones:

The knitted boleros worn to church by the little Spanish Infantas on Easter Sunday were front-page news all over Spain, so they were bound to catch my knitter's eye.

Picture © letiziaortiz1972, flickr.