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Mar 28, 2007
Textile Research Centre
Probably few list members know of the TRC in Leiden, The Netherlands, so a post announcing their Annual Report for 2006 may be in order. While the general public -- incl. BBC world news -- got excited at their acquisition and display of a white silk burqa designed by the Italian fashion designer Gabriella Ghidoni ('a disgrace' according to some), archaeologists and classicists might notice:
1. Projected reconstruction of the garments from the late-1st C BC Tillia Tepe tombs in northern Afghanistan, otherwise famous for the huge quantity of 'Bactrian Gold' jewellery (now being shown at the Musee Guimet in Paris, but due for an American tour in 2008). Also found in the tombs were thousands of small gold plaques which had originally been sewn onto the deceased clothes and remains of the texiles themselves.
2. The current work being done on ancient Egyptian textiles, and especially a structural, weave, and fibre analysis of textile remnants.
