Gillian Vogelsang of the TRC Leiden and Bärbel Schmidt of Osnabrück University in the TRC depot, 30 November 2021.At the end of November, and just before the Netherlands went into lockdown again, we welcomed two visitors from the Textile Department of Osnabrück University in Germany, namely Prof. Bärbel Schmidt and her colleague, Lucia Schwalenberg (for a TRC blog about this visit, click here).
We discussed co-operation between our two institutes, talked about the future of textile studies in general and we selected sixteen garments (eight German and eight Dutch), which our German visitors are borrowing. The garments are for a project with the German BA students in Osnabrück to create designs and objects that are inspired by these items of clothing. I am very curious what they will create!
The TRC was not the only venue visited. Bärbel and Lucia were on a four-day trip to see various museums, exhibitions and people in the Netherlands and Belgium. They have written a report about their trip which is available here.
