Permanent and temporary staff

The director of the Stichting Textile Research Centre (TRC) is Dr Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood. She is a trained textile archaeologist and a specialist in Middle Eastern textiles and dress and the history of embroidery. Other staff include Shelley Anderson, who is especially helping with PR (Facebook and TRC Needles); Beverley Bennett and Susan Cave, working on the quilt collection and looking after the TRC shop; Marieke Roozeboom, who runs the library, together with Karin Winkel, and manages the IT; Geesje van Reenen, who looks after the depot. Furthermore, Augusta de Gunzbourg, Francesco Montuori, Tchi Ridley, Alice Tsibulsky and Joshua Verkerk are general volunteers.

Expert advice

In addition, the work of the TRC is supported by a number of people who give specialist advice, or who undertake specific tasks, as for instance Els de Baan on Western fashion; Dr. Anna Beerens, for Japanese and Western fashion; Dr. Chrystel Brandenburgh, on archaeological textiles, especially from Northwestern Europe; Coen van der Geest, who helps with IT, especially related to the database and digital catalogues; Joost Kolkman, who maintains the TRC website; Olga Leromina, who helps with lace identification; Deandra de Looff, who specialises on archaeological textiles; René Lugtigheid, who advises on conservation techniques; Dr. Tineke Rooijakkers, who advises on Middle Eastern textiles and dress; and Paul Spijker, who advises on African textiles.