"A Double-Headed Eagle Embroidery: Analysis and Conservation"

Kathrin Colburn is responsible for the textiles and tapestries held by the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, as well as The Met's holdings of late antique textiles. She received her training at the Abegg-Stiftung in Switzerland and began working at The Met in 1990 after serving as a conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Kathrin's research includes the conservation and technological aspects of medieval textiles and tapestries, as well as late antique and early medieval textiles from Egypt. Kathrin recently contributed technical entries to a digital catalogue of textiles in the Byzantine Collection at Dumbarton Oaks, a collaborative project that drew together an international group of textile specialists. Her contributions were also an integral part of exhibitions such as Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt (2019-20), Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity (2016), and New Discoveries: Early Liturgical Textiles from Egypt, 200–400 (2015).