Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood

Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood
Born1957 (age 68–69)
Alma materManchester Polytechnic
University of Manchester
Employer(s)Ashmolean Museum
Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Royal Ontario Museum
Known forFounding and directing the Textile Research Centre (TRC)

Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood (née Eastwood, born 1957) is an English archaeologist, costume and textile historian, writer, editor and expert on Middle Eastern dress. She is founder and director of the Textile Research Centre (TRC) based in Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands.

Career

Vogelsang-Eastwood was born in 1957 and grew up in Bingley, West Yorkshire, England.[1] She studied Design History at Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University) in Manchester and volunteered at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.[1]

In 1982, Vogelsang-Eastwood worked as a textile specialist at the archaeological site of the Ptolemaic and medieval port Quseir al-Qadim in Egypt and witnessed the recovery of a complete face veil dating from the thirteenth-century.[2] She published a catalogue of textile finds from the site.[3]

Vogelsang-Eastwood worked on Egyptian textiles at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt, and she set up the exhibition Tutankhamun’s Wardrobe: Textiles and Dress from the Tomb of Tutankhamun and produced the first catalogue of the textiles recovered from Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.[1][4][5] She has also analysed clothing and textiles from the late Predynastic Egypt to the end of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt,[6] outlining the origin of the "bag tunic."[7]

In 1988, Vogelsang-Eastwood completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in England,[8][9] studying under John-Peter Wild.[1] In 1990, she was a Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship participant at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada, where she investigated late Fatimid and early Mamluk textiles from Jebel Adda.[8][10] Vogelsang-Eastwood moved to the Netherlands in 1985 and is the founder and director of the Textile Research Centre (TRC) in The Netherlands,[11] which she established in 1991.[1]

Vogelsang-Eastwood is the senior author and chief editor of the 8-volume World Encyclopedia of Embroidery (2016ff.), published by Bloomsbury in London. The first volume was awarded the Dartmouth Medal in 2017.[9]

Select publications

  • Tutankhamun's Wardrobe: Garments from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (1999)
  • Pharaonic Egyptian Clothing (2000)[12]
  • Covering the Moon: An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils (2008), with her husband Willem Vogelsang[2][13]
  • Embroidery from the Arab World (2010)[1]
  • Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World (2016), editor[14]
  • Dressed with Distinction: Garments from Ottoman Syria (2020)
  • The Atlas of World Embroidery (2026)[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood - Textile Research Centre". The Zay Initiative. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  2. ^ a b Hossain, M. (1 September 2010). "Covering the Moon. An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils * By GILLIAN VOGELSANG-EASTWOOD and WILLEM VOGELSANG". Journal of Islamic Studies. 21 (3): 449–451. doi:10.1093/jis/etq024. ISSN 0955-2340. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  3. ^ Burke, Katherine Strange (30 April 2021). The Sheikh's House at Quseir al-Qadim: Documenting a Thirteenth-Century Red Sea Port. Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-61491-058-9.
  4. ^ "Tutankhamun's Wardrobe with Dr Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood". The Media Line. 26 September 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  5. ^ Hoskins, Nancy Arthur (2011). "Woven Patterns on Tutankhamun Textiles". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 47: 199–215. ISSN 0065-9991. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  6. ^ Hallmann, Aleksandra (22 January 2024). Ancient Egyptian Clothing: Studies in Late Period Private Representations: Volume 1. BRILL. p. 338. ISBN 978-90-04-50131-7.
  7. ^ Patton, Caitlin. (2020). Ladies at the Loom: Examining Intersections of Gender and Textiles in New Kingdom Egypt (Doctoral dissertation, University of Iowa). Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  8. ^ a b "Gillian Vogelsang Eastwood". Royal Ontario Museum. 22 March 2026. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  9. ^ a b "Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood". Brave New World (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  10. ^ "Roman and Islamic Textiles from the Egyptian Site of Quseir al-Qadim". Royal Ontario Museum. 22 March 2026. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  11. ^ "Staff". Textile Research Centre. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  12. ^ Wendrich, W. (1 May 2000). "Vogelsang-Eastwood, G.: Pharaonic Egyptian Clothing (Book Review)". Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. 95 (3): 267. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  13. ^ Scarce, Jennifer M. (2010). "Coveringthe Moon – an Introduction to Middle Eastern FaceVeils. By Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwoodand Willem Vogelsang.pp 247.Peeters,Leuven, Belgium,2008". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 20 (2): 221–222. doi:10.1017/S1356186309990526. ISSN 1474-0591. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  14. ^ Lind, Mathilde (12 April 2018). "Review of Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, editor, Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World". Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. ISSN 2832-8132. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
  15. ^ "What We Are Reading Today: 'The Atlas of World Embroidery'". Arab News PK. 26 July 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2026.
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