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Textile and Costume Specialist
Senior Curator of Textiles and Costumes, Emerita
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Textile and Costume specialist, May 1, 2017 to present.
Lecturing, consultation, and research on the topics of quilts and costumes.
Curator of Textiles and Costumes, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. 1978–May 1, 2017.
Duties included responsibility for Colonial Williamsburg’s collections of antique quilts, costumes, coverlets, and textiles displayed in the historic houses, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum. Major projects included curating the exhibition “Language of Clothing,” held at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum from October 2002 through February 15, 2004 and curating the exhibition “Printed Fashions,” March 25, 2017 through present. Produced numerous line drawings of quilt patterns using Computer Assisted Design technology to reveal difficult-to-see patterns in bed quilts and clothing.
Associate Curator and later Curator of Textiles, Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia. 1972–1978.
Instructor, Textile Related Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1968–1970.

Master of Arts, Early American Culture, Winterthur Program of the University of Delaware and the Winterthur Museum, class of 1972.

Thesis: “The Textile Trade in Boston, 1650–1700” (submitted under the name of Linda Baumgarten Berlekamp).

Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, Textile Related Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1967–1968.
- Worked with the Helen Allen Collection of antique and modern study textiles.