I am senior lecturer and head of the division for Fashion Studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences. I hold a PhD in Textile History from the department of Art History, Uppsala University through the Nordic Museum Graduate School for Museum Employees. I am a former curator at the Textile Museum in Borås and have curated several exhibitions on textiles, design and fashion.

My main research interest is the cultural history of textiles and fashion, with a focus on material culture and gender perspective. My research includes studies of pre-industrial manufacturing techniques in European fashionable dress and underwear including pattern construction and sewing techniques, tailors and seamstresses as professional groups and the relationship between production, consumption and fashion in the 18^th and early 19^th centuries. I am also interested in questions about the relation between textiles, clothes and sustainability, the connection between production and consumption as well as everyday use and meaning of fashionable dress in the long eighteenth century.  This interest has led me to the study of clothes in a lifecycle perspective, recycling practices and burial clothes. I have always found the starting point for my research in museum collections of fashion and textile objects and have a keen interest in how the object based methods can be used and developed.

Books (3)

• Rasmussen, P. (2010). Skräddaren, sömmerskan och modet : arbetsmetoder och arbetsdelning i tillverkningen av kvinnlig dräkt 1770-1830. Nordiska museets handlingar 136. Nordiska museets förlag. Dissertation.
• Rasmussen, P. & Hammar, B. (2008). Underkläder. En kulturhistoria. Signum.
• Rasmussen, P. & Hammar, B. (2001). Kvinnligt mode under två sekel. Signum.

Articles (2)

• Rasmussen, P. (2016). Recycling a fashionable wardrobe in the long eighteenth century in Sweden. History of Retailing and Consumption, 2, 193-222. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
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• Rasmussen, P. (2015). Återbruk i modegarderoben, ca 1790-1830. Historisk tidskrift för Finland, 4, 485-516. Historiska föreningen r.f..

Book chapters (4)

• Rasmussen, P. (2015). Kläder för den moderiktiga damgarderoben : skräddares och sömmerskors arbete 1770-1830. In Nockert, M. (Ed.) (pp. 265-286). Upplandsmuseet.
• Rasmussen, P. (2014). Creating fashion: tailors' and seamstresses' work with cutting and construction techniques in women’s dress, c. 1750-1830. In Nosch, M.-L., Engelhart Mathiassen, T., Ringgaard, M., Toftegaard, K. & Vendborg Pedersen, M. (Eds.) (pp. 49-71). Oxbow Books.
• Rasmussen, P. (2005). Arbetsdelning och sömnadsteknik i förändring. Tillverkning av modedräkt i Sverige 1750-1830. In Svensson, B. & Waldén, L. (Eds.) (pp. 117-140). Nordiska museets förlag.
• Rasmussen, P. (2000). Flasketröja och skörttröja - material, konstruktion och sömnad. In Nilsson, H. (Ed.) (pp. 82-97). Ystads fornminnesförening.

Conference contributions (1)

• Rasmussen, P. (2018). Robe de Cour at the Swedish Court.

Newspaper articles (1)

• Rasmussen, P. (2013). Så minskar trendbyrån moderisken. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet.
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Miscellaneous (1)

• Rasmussen, P. & Hammar, B. (2013). Take a closer look at costume : Documentation makes clothes talk. ICOM Costume Committee.
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