ULITA – an Archive of International Textiles
Home
Welcome to ULITA
ULITA – an Archive of International Textiles is housed in St Wilfred’s Chapel on the Western Campus of the University of Leeds.
The purpose of the archive is to collect, preserve and document textiles and other related items from many of the textile producing areas of the world for the benefit of scholars, researchers and the public … read more »
Sorry, are having problems with our catalogue at the moment! It can be accessed on the University network only.
ULITA – an Archive of International Textiles
St.Wilfred’s Chapel
Maurice Keyworth Building
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
Join our mailing list to keep up to date with our programmes and opportunities.
General enquiries (telephone): +44(0)113 343 3919
General enquiries (email): ulita@leeds.ac.uk
Free Entry
Exhibition opening hours*: We currently don’t have an exhibition, but are open for research visits by appointment.
Exhibitions / Events
We currently do not have an exhibition in ULITA.
ULITA usually holds temporary exhibitions based on aspects of its own collections and equivalent themes. There is no permanent exhibition.
See our discovered 1926 film of Professor Barker and the llamas, digitised to mark his 150th anniversary.
Professor Aldred Barker was third Head of Department of Textile Industries.
Barker inspecting alpaca in Peru