Textile Research Centre
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| Established | 1991 |
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| Location | Hogewoerd 164, Leiden |
| Coordinates | 52°9′19.7″N 4°30′6.34″E / 52.155472°N 4.5017611°E |
| Director | G.M. Vogelsang-Eastwood (2010) |
| Website | www |
The Textile Research Centre (TRC), Leiden, Netherlands, is an independent research institute working in the field of textiles and dress.[1] It is housed at Hogewoerd 164 in Leiden and includes exhibition space, storage rooms, a lecture room and other working areas. The current director of the TRC (as of 2020) is Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, a textile and dress historian.
Aims
The TRC has the stated aim of teaching textile crafts and encouraging research into anthropological and archaeological textiles and clothing in the widest sense of the word. In particular, the TRC specialises in dress - what people wear in order to express their identity - and pre-industrial textile technology.[2]
History
The TRC was founded in 1991 as a Stichting (foundation; non-profit organisation). Since then it has been involved in many aspects of the academic study of textiles and dress, especially those from the Near East.
In 1997 the TRC started building up a textile and dress collection. By mid-2021 the collection had grown to over 35,000 textiles, garments and accessories from all over the world and from all ages. It also has a large collection of Dutch regional dress. Many of the garments were obtained during fieldwork by TRC staff and students, whilst others were purchased or given as donations.
Until August 2009 the TRC was housed in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, but since then it has moved to new premises in the centre of Leiden. It now organises a series of exhibitions, lectures, workshops and training courses for students and others who are interested.
Middle Eastern dress remains a focal point of the TRC. The veils in the TRC collection, for instance, were used for a major exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden (1996), and for various publications, including Covering the Moon: An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils.[3]
Publications
- Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World (London: Bloomsbury 2016). ISBN 9780857853974
- Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau, and the Indian Subcontinent (London: Bloomsbury 2021). ISBN 9781350017245
Past exhibitions, 2015-2021
- From Buteh to Paisley: The story of a global icon (March - December 2021)
- Textile tales from the Second World War (January - August 2020)
- Socks & Stockings (August - December 2019)
- Velvet! (January - June 2019)
- Resist printing and dyeing with indigo (November 2018)
- Dressing the "Stans": Textiles, dress and jewellery from Central Asia (September - December 2017)
- Ikats and ikat weaving from Kalimantan/Borneo (August 2017)
- From Kaftan to Kippa (April-June 2017)
- From Sweden to Sardinia (August 2016 - February 2017)
- Decorated with gold and silver (February - June 2016)
- Dressing Sheba: Textiles and garments from Yemen (August-December 2015)
- Textile Visions from Egypt (January - June 2015)
Online exhibitions
- Afghan Dress
- Ancient Greek loom weights
- Appliqués from the Street of the Tentmakers, Cairo, Egypt
- Berlin work charts
- Chinese lotus shoes
- Dressing the Stans. Textiles, dress and jewellery from Central Asia
- For a few sacks more
- From Buteh to Paisley: The story of a global icon
- From Kaftan to Kippa
- Lace identification: Seven examples
- Maltese lace
- Out of Asia
- Rainbow people: Celebrating 50 Years of Stonewall
- Silk Embroidered Postcards from the First World War
- Textile Tales from the Second World War
- Velvet!
References
- ^ "Textile Research Centre, Leiden". Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ "General information". www.trc-leiden.nl. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^ Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian; Vogelsang, W. J. (2008). Covering the Moon: An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils. Peeters. ISBN 9789042919907.
External links
Further reading
- Eicher, J. B.; Roach-Higgins, M. E. (1992). "Definition and classification of dress: Implications for analyses of gender roles". In Barnes, R.; Eicher, J. B. (eds.). Dress and Gender. Making and Meaning in Cultural Contexts. New York: St. Martin’s Press. pp. 9–28.
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