Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen is trained as a crafts teacher with weaving as her main subject and as an ethnographer and social anthropologist at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She has curated large exhibitions and has published extensively about historical dress and textiles as well as other subjects. Since 2020, she has been guest scholar at the Center for Textile Research at The University of Copenhagen and from 2021 also research assistant at CON AMORE, Center for Autobiographical Memory Research at The University of Aarhus – supported by the VELUX Foundation.