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The Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea, was opened on 27 October 1998 with the express purpose of preserving the traditional Korean patchwork and quilting techniques, and exhibiting comparable products from the rest of the world.

The MGC (Mekong-Ganga Cooperation) Asian Traditional Textiles Museum is located in Siem Rap, Cambodia, and was opened in April 2014. It focuses on the textiles and textile production in and from Cambodia, India, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

The Fine Arts G. Zanabazar Museum was established in 1966 and in 1995 named after the Buddhist teacher, G. Zanabazar (1635 - 1724). It is located along Juulchid Street in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. It contains items that reflect the rich cultural history of Mongolia from earliest times until the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Museum Tekstil in Jakarta, Indonesia, was established in 1976 on the basis of a donation of some five hundred textiles by the Himpunan Wastrapema ('Society of Textile Friends'). The Museum's collection contains a wide range of warp and weft ikats, batiks, embroideries, beadwork, appliqués, tapestry weaves, and supplementary warp and weft textiles from all over Indonesia.

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam houses an ivory-coloured, Indian shawl made of cotton crêpe. It measures 137 x 114 cm and is decorated with sprigs of flowers with a green leaf, embroidered in silk. It is dated to the late eighteenth century. A wooden block was probably used to transfer the outline of the motif to the cloth.

A casket with ebony veneer and decorated with embroidery on the lid and its four sides is housed in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. It dates to c. 1650 and was produced in England. It measures 25.5 (h) x 27.2 (w) x 35 (l) cm. The embroidery is carried out with gold and silver thread, and silk. The embroidery shows various landscapes.

The collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam includes a photograph, taken in the early twentieth century, of a woman sitting at a table and doing crochet. The photograph was part of a family album with photographs of wine seller Kraaij & Co.(Bordeaux - Amsterdam). The table is covered with a cloth made of tape lace.

An eighteenth century coif made of yellow silk and decorated with floral patterns is housed in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The coif was made in The Netherlands, sometime around 1750-1775. It measures 20 x 20 cm. The decoration is carried out in embroidery with multi-coloured silk and silver thread. The coif is lined with linen.

A gamester's purse that is embroidered with gold and silver thread and silk is housed in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.  It was probably made in France and dates to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It measures 9.5 x 8.2 cm. The lining is made of goat leather.

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam houses a fragment of a gold and silk embroidered orphrey (in Dutch: aurifries) that was made in the Netherlands and dates to c. AD 1550. The medallion contains an embroidered illustration of the Flight to Egypt. The fragment measures 47 x 21.5 cm and is worked in the or nué  style.