Web links
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston
www.harrismuseum.org.uk
The Harris has a Costume & Textile Collection which includes over 6,000 items of historic and contemporary clothing, textiles and fashion plates.Highlights include women's wear from the 1800s, a complete set of Forbes Watson's Textiles Manufactures of India (1866) and a collection of Horrockses Fashions dresses.
Macclesfield Silk Museum
http://www.silk-macclesfield.org/index.htm
Macclesfield has several textile-related museums.