Pacific Textile Arts maintains a library of over 1300 textile-related books and videos. The rapidly expanding collection comes from donations by generous supporters and from the estates of fiber artists. The Library is located at our headquarters at 450 Alger Street, Ft. Bragg, CA. It is open Thursdays from 1:30 - 3:30, and at other times by appointment. (Please call 707-964-3600). Books may be borrowed by PTA members from the Library location. Mail service or interlibrary loan is not available at this time.
Richard Sutherland,
Librarian at the deYoung Museum, San Francisco, has, as a volunteer, organized the Library and maintains the collection. He has created a database, based on Library of Congress records, that is searchable by author, title and/or subject. Three alphabetical listings of the catalog records are provided on this website:
Click here for Library listed by Titles.
Click here for Library listed by Authors.
Click here for Library listed by Subjects.
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Library Wish List
Several of our board members have been demonstrating and teaching spinning and weaving in the schools. We have a hole in our library collection — we have no books on teaching textile arts to children or books on textiles that are written for children. If you have any books that could help our members teach children to spin, weave, knit, etc. or that tell tales about these activities, we would appreciate donations. If you have a bibliography of books or videos that would be appropriate please let us know. Donations and/or recommendations can be mailed or delivered to Pacific Textile Arts, 450 Alger Street, Fort Bragg, CA 95437.
You can also contact us by email at: library@pacifictextilearts.org