Dorothy Armstrong

Dorothy Armstrong is a historian of the material culture of South, Central, and West Asia, and for the last decade has tried to penetrate the mysteries of Asian rugs. She has published, done podcasts, and lectured widely on carpets. She was tutor at the Royal College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art, and from 2021 has been the Beattie Fellow in Carpet Studies at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. She is an avid collector of carpets and is as a result also an expert on clothes moths.