You can tell the summer holidays are over! All sorts of things are happening at the TRC.
New films
TRC intern Kelly Wong, for example, has made four short films about volunteers at TRC - what they like about their work and their favourite (currently) items from the TRC Collection. The main problem being there are so many items to choose from and with new pieces coming in on a regular basis it can be very hard to choose a favourite! These and other TRC films can be seen at the TRC YouTube channel. You can also click on the individual thumbnails below.
Rekindle your passion / Meet our volunteers
Learning by doing / Meet our volunteers
Your favourite project that you have worked on? Ask the volunteers 
Your favourite item in the TRC collection? Ask the volunteers
Textile Travels, a new TRC exhibition
Another group of volunteers are working very hard on the TRC's latest exhibition called Textile Travels, which is about the movement and influences upon the historic Asian-African textile trade, not to mention the European element in this vast and complicated story.
Fragment of a block printed textile using a resist technique, 14th century, originally from India, excavated in Egypt (TRC 2020.0234).
Five themes have been picked and explored, including the medieval trade in Indian cotton textiles, the role of George/Madras cloth, kangas, Dutch Wax textiles and finally, bazin. And if you want to know what bazin is, then either pop into the TRC from the 12th September or keep watching the TRC home page for our blogs and our upcoming digital exhibition on the same theme.
Length of Madras/George cloth with a checked/tartan design in orange, red, green and black (TRC 2022.2393). Madras or George cloth originates from Madras and the British fortress of St George, and became popular in western Africa (and Surinam in South America).
Book market, Saturday 8 October
We have also started to prepare the TRC's Textile and Dress Book Sale! This will take place on Saturday, 8th October and the door will open at 10.00. There will be hundreds of textile, dress and accessory books on sale - literally at bargain prices. All proceeds raised by the sale will go to running other TRC activities.
There will also be a chance to meet some of the TRC volunteers and to see the Asian-African textile exhibition. And of course to do some early Christmas shopping in the TRC Shop, thanks to the hard work of Beverley Bennet, there are some amazing and unique items.
TRC agenda
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