Links - Internet resources

Rug societies
NERS - The New England Rug Society
TMA/SC - Textile Museum Associates of Southern California
Armenian Rug Society - Non-profit organization founded in Washington D.C. in 1980
AKREP - Oriental Rug Society in Gothenburg
HAJJIBABA - The Hajji Baba Club
SFBARS - San Francisco Bay Area Rug Society
Oriental Rug Society - Oriental Rug Society of N.S.W. INC.
STARS - Seattle Textile and Rug Society
Textile Society - The Textile Society of America, Inc. 
PRTS - The Philadelphia Rug and Textile Society
Pazyryk Gesellschaft - Founded on December 7, 1991
CORTS - The Chicago Oriental Rug and Textile Society
Textile Society of Hong Kong - The society was formed in December, 1993
TKF - Austrian Society for Textile-Art-Research
Teppichfreunde - Teppichfreunde Norddeutschland
Kansas City Oriental Rug and Textile Association

Museums
TM - The Textile Museum

Exhibitions, fairs and conferences
ACOR - American Conference on Oriental Rugs
ICOC - International Conference on Oriental Carpets
Karma - Kensington Antique Rug Mercantile Association
ARTS - The Antique Rug & Textile Show in San Francisco 2009
NYICS - New York International Carpet Show

Rug blogs and magazines
Tea & Carpets - Non-commercial blog on oriental rugs
Spongobongo - Barry O'Connells site on oriental rugs and the people behind
Turkotek - Non-commercial site for collectors of oriental rugs and textile
Hali - Premier magazine devoted antique carpets, textiles and art
Jozan - Oriental rug magazine and portal
Rug Rag - Oriental rug information and rug blog
R. John Howe - Textiles and text

Directories
Asian Art - Online journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia

Books
RugBooks - Oriental Rug and Textile Books

Dealer sites
Marla Mallett - Antique tribal flatwoven rugs and other antique textiles
Herat Gallery - Antique oriental rugs
Galerie Arabesque - Galerie Arabesque is an internationally active gallery
Frauenknecht Online Gallery - Antique carpets & textiles
Rupert Smith - Specialist antique Tibetan textiles
Haliden - Suppliers of fine antique oriental rugs and decorative tribal carpets
Cocoon - Established in 1996 by Seref Ozen and Mustafa Gokhan Demir
J.H.Terry Gallery - Fine Art and Furnishings
James Cohen Carpets - Specialist in antique rugs carpets and textiles
Owenparryrugs.com - Specialist in antique rugs carpets and textiles
Reyn Staffel - Specialized in antique tribal and village weaving and contemporary rugs
Rudolf J. Geissmann - Antique oriental carpets and tribal kilims
Anthony Hazledine - Rugs and textiles, tribal & Islamic art
Ziya Bozoglu - Carpet and textile art specialist
Alberto Boralevi - Antique rugs and textiles
Rugrabbit - Website for buying and selling antique Tribal Rugs and Collectible Textiles
Clive Rogers Oriental Rugs - Antique tribal weavings and textiles
Ron Hort - Antique Oriental rugs
East of the Bosphorus - Oriental rugs and flatweaves
Hagop Manoyan Antique Rugs - Caucasian, Anatolian and Persian rugs