Textile Research Centre

The Stichting Textile Research Center, Leiden, Netherlands, is an autonomous research foundation working in the field of materials and dress. It is housed at Hogewoerd 164 in Leiden and incorporates show space, storage spaces, an address room and other working territories. The present executive of the TRC is Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, a material and dress student of history. The TRC has the expressed point of empowering research into anthropological and archeological materials and garments in the most stretched out feeling of the word.

Specifically, the TRC has some expertise in Dress: to be specific, what individuals do to their body alteration and what they wear keeping in mind the end goal to express their character. The essential hypothesis of dress is illustrated in an article by Eicher and Roach-Higgins. The TRC was established in 1991 as a Stichting. From that point forward it has been engaged with numerous parts of the scholarly investigation of materials and dress, particularly those from the Near East. In 1997 the TRC began developing a material and dress gathering. By late 2010 the gathering had developed to more than 6,500 materials, articles of clothing and embellishments from everywhere throughout the world.

The greater part of the articles of clothing originate from the Near East and Islamic grounds: quite, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Oman and Saudi Arabia. It likewise has an expansive accumulation of Dutch territorial dress. Huge numbers of the pieces of clothing were gotten amid hands on work by TRC staff and understudies, while others were bought or given as gifts. Until August 2009 the TRC was housed in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, yet from that point forward it has moved to new premises in the focal point of Leiden.