Global Cultures of Textiles and Dress Group (GCTD)

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The Global Cultures of Textiles and Dress (GCTD) Group aims to promote research in textiles and dress that addresses a wide range of critical and practice-based themes.

Textiles and dress are part of daily human experience and yet their familiarity belies complex social, cultural and historical circumstances. Bearing this in mind, a major focus of the GCTD Group’s work is to explore the significance and meaning of textiles and dress across cultures and time, and to contextualise them as potent aspects of material and visual culture.

Research underway covers a range of social and cultural contexts, historical periods and technologies, covering handmade production – craft – as well as industrial manufacture. Working with academic partners and others from industry, cultural institutions, designers, craftspeople and entrepreneurs, the GCTD Group has established research collaborations at local, national and international level, producing innovative research of lasting significance that is socially meaningful.

Collaborators include Nottingham Castle Museum, Modern Interiors Research Centre @ Kingston University, Victor and Albert Museum, British Council, Craft Revival Trust (NGO, India), Garden Silk Mills (India), and many others. The Group draws on a depth of expertise across the field of textiles, dress and craft production, in addition to which it offers a particular focus on Asia, with India especially well represented in its research. Members of the Group have already attracted income from major funding organisations, including the AHRC, Pasold Research Fund and the Leverhulme Trust.

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Nottingham Trent University
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