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Grace Mary Crowfoot (née Hood; 1879–1957) was a British archaeologist and a pioneer in the study of archaeological textiles. During a long and active life Molly—as she was always known to friends, family and close colleagues—worked on a wide variety of textiles from North Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the British Isles.
5 de out. de 2016 · Grace Mary Crowfoot was an English scholar who published numerous articles and books about European and Middle Eastern textiles and textile production. She is regarded as one of the Grandes Dames of the study of archaeological textiles.
Sent abroad for his health in 1851, he had amassed a large and varied collection of Egyptian 'antiquities' by the time of his death from tuberculosis in 1864. In his memory his father added to the house a great hall with a carved ceiling in the Gothic style to accommodate the collection.
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8 de mar. de 2022 · This International Women’s Day, I want to celebrate the incredible achievements of Grace Mary Crowfoot, a botanist, textile archaeologist, anthropologist, and pioneering anti-FGM advocate and to share her story of breaking biases and fighting inequality for women.
Grace Mary Crowfoot, botanist, textile historian, archaeologist, and midwife, was the mother of Nobel Laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), who was only the third female after Marie Curie and Curie’s daughter Irène Joliot-Curie to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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Grace Mary Crowfoot, botanist, textile historian, archaeologist, and midwife, was the mother of Nobel Laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), who was only the third female after Marie Curie and Curie’s daughter Irène Joliot-Curie to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
5 de set. de 2022 · This paper explores the Grace Mary Crowfoot collection of textile objects and letters found in the Textile Research Centre (TRC) in Leiden. Crowfoot, a textile archeologist worked mainly between North Africa and the Middle East, although her interests were far more expansive. Her collection in the TRC has largely gone unstudied.
