Karin J. Bohleke is the director of the Fashion Archives and Museum of Shippensburg University and serves as an adjunct professor in Shippensburg’s Applied History MA program. She earned her PhD from Yale University. Following in the family footsteps of generations of skilled textile enthusiasts, Karin has been sewing, knitting, embroidering, tatting, and studying the fiber arts since early childhood. She lectures on costume history, serves as a consultant to museums and historical societies, and applies her needle skills to textile conservation. She and her husband live near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where they also teach historic dance.
Loss tested artist and entrepreneur Phoebe Henning Rugh early, but in the colors and traditions of folk textiles she discovered not just solace, but a lifelong practice of reinvention and wonder.
