Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwod

Gillian Vogelsang-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. She studied Design History at Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University) in Manchester and volunteered at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. She published a catalogue of textile finds from the site.

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. She has also analysed clothing and textiles from the late Predynastic Egypt to the end of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt, outlining the origin of the "bag tunic."

In 1988, Vogelsang-Eastwood completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in England, studying under John-Peter Wild. Vogelsang-Eastwood moved to the Netherlands in 1985 and is the founder and director of the Textile Research Centre (TRC) in The Netherlands, which she established in 1991. Covering the Moon: An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils (2008), with her husband Willem Vogelsang Embroidery from the Arab World (2010) Dressed with Distinction: Garments from Ottoman Syria (2020) The Atlas of World Embroidery (2026)