Eiluned Edwards Eiluned Edwards is Reader in Global Cultures of Textiles and Dress at
Nottingham Trent University, UK, and also contributes to the Royal College of
Art MA Design History programme and the V&A Arts of Asia course. She was
previously Victoria and Albert Museum/London College of Fashion Senior Research
Fellow in Textiles and Dress (2005-2009). She has a PhD in Art History and
Archaeology (Manchester University, 2000). Her dissertation analysed how social
change was reflected in the material culture of Rabaris pastoral migrants in
Kachchh district, Gujarat focusing on their textiles and dress. Since 1991,
her research has concentrated on aspects of textiles, dress, fashion and craft
development in South Asia, notably India and she has published widely on these
topics. Her research has been supported by the British Academy, Nehru Trust,
Pasold Research Fund, and Leverhulme Trust (Research Fellowship 2012-14). It
has been widely disseminated through publications, teaching, conferences and
exhibitions. Some of her previous publications include The Idea of Gujarat (2010), British
Asian Style (V&A, 2010), and contributions to The Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in
Non-Western Cultures (2014).
