Gleba Margarita. - Dressing the Past

Eva B. Andersson . Archaeologist specialized in North European archaeology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Lund (Sweden). Her special area of study is textile production during the Iron and Viking Ages in Scandinavia. She is a project manager at the Danish National Foundations Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen.

Cecilia Aneer . Teaches dress history at undergraduate courses in textile history. At present she is preparing for her Ph.D. in Textile Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research is in the field of tailoring techniques and clothing manufacture with a special interest in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Annette Borrell. M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Southern Denmark. She is the Administrative Officer at the Danish National Research Foundations Centre for Textile Research at Copenhagen University. She is interested in film and costume and has lectured on the subject.

Margarita Gleba. Archaeologist specialized in pre-Roman Italian archaeology. She has worked on excavations in Italy, Turkey and Ukraine. She received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College (USA). She is a project manager and postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her special area of study is the archaeology of textile production.

Ilona Hendzsel. Textile designer and teacher of design, graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary. She teaches textile design at Zichy Mihly Secondary School of Applied Arts, Kaposvr and works as a designer and producer of home fabrics.

Eszter Istvnovits. Trtnelemtudomnyok kandidtusa (Ph.D. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest). She is archaeologist and scientific secretary at the Jsa Andrs Museum (Nyregyhza, Szabolcs-Szatmr-Bereg County, Hungary). Her main fields of research are the Barbarians of the Roman Age in the Carpathian Basin, Early Migration Period and archaeology of the Upper Tisza Region.

Valria Kulcsr. Trtnelemtudomnyok kandidtusa (Ph.D. Hungarian Academy of Sciences). She is an archaeologist at the Petfi Museum (Aszd, Pest County, Hungary). Her main fields of research are Barbarians of the Roman Age in the Carpathian Basin, Early Migration Period, and rescue archaeology.

Helle Leilund. Candidata philosophiae (Copenhagen University) in European Ethnology and is curator at The National Museum of Denmarks Department for Modern Danish History. She is currently writing her Ph.D. thesis on how different people practise dress codes, uniforms and uniformity at work today. This project is undertaken within the context of the dress collection at the National Museum of Denmark.

Dorottya Ligeti. Assistant Professor at the Department of Leather Design at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. She graduated as a leather and fashion accessory designer from the Department of Textile Design at the same university and is at present preparing for her doctorate there. Her special area of interest is the possibilities for European footwear production in relation to competition from Far East Asian mass production.

Ulla Mannering . Archaeologist specialized in North European prehistoric and Roman textiles and costumes. She has also worked with the use and production of prehistoric plant fibre materials, especially nettle and flax. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen. She is a project manager at the Danish National Foundations Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen.

Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen. Candidata philosophiae (rhus University, Denmark) in Ethnography and Social Anthropology. She is Curator at Den Gamle By (The Old Town), National Open Air Museum of Urban History, rhus. A weaving teacher by profession, she has published articles on historical dress and textiles. Exhibitions: Bride and Groomweddings and wedding outfits during 250 years (2004); Maternity Clothing (2005); Christening Robes (2006).

Cherine Munkholt . M.A. in History (University of Copenhagen); M.A. in Area Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University) and B.Soc.Sc. in International Studies (Birmingham University). She has worked as a freelance proofreader since 1984.

Marie-Louise B. Nosch. Director of the Danish National Foundations Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen. She is trained in ancient history and Philology. She has been educated at universities in France, Italy and Germany, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Salzburg. Her main research area is Bronze Age Mediterranean textile production, and in particular the Linear B inscriptions on Mycenaean textile production.

Anna Nrgaard. Professionally educated weaver and handicrafts teacher. She has lectured on and worked with reconstructions of prehistoric textiles for 25 years, and has exhibited her work at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, the University of Oslos Antiquities Collection in Norway, and the Hochdorf Museum in Germany for its permanent exhibition on Der Keltenfrst von Hochdorf . She is specialized in weaving on a warp-weighted loom, and at present works at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark where she is weaving a reconstruction of a woollen sail.

Andrea vari. A woven material and model designer and teacher graduated from the Textile Design Department at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. She is the managing designer of a Hungarian womens wear company and a teacher of costume history and drawing at the Model and Fashion School, Budapest.

Judit Psztkai-Szeke. Archaeologist specialized in Roman provincial archaeology. She is studying for her Ph.D. at the Department of Classics at rhus University and at the Danish National Foundations Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen. Her special field of research is textile production in the Roman province of Pannonia (present day Central Europe).

Maj Ringgaard. Textile conservator at the National Museum of Denmark who has lectured extensively in Scandinavia on textile conservation. She is studying for her Ph.D. at the National Museum of Denmark and at the Danish National Foundations Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen. She is a trained teacher in tailoring, weaving, knitting and needlecraft and studied archaeology before obtaining her M.Sc. in Conservation from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her main interests are historical textile materials and techniques.

Kathrine Vestergaard Pedersen. Candidata magisterii (Copenhagen University) in medieval archaeology and textile science is Activity Coordinator at Hjemsted Oldtidspark Iron Age Open Air Museum. She is interested in the development of the construction of garments, dress patterns and fabrics in the Nordic Viking and Middle Ages, with a special emphasis on combining theoretical analysis with practical knowledge garnered from handicraft processes.