She has specialized in tapestry using a high-warp loom, coordinating her work with that of various Danish painters including Mogens Andersen and Ole Schwalbe.
In 1951, she married the director Niels Erik Warburg with whom she had two children, Emmerik Peter (1952) and Mette Cathrine (1955).
[2] She was brought up in a well-to-do home where, thanks to her father, she met painters and cultural players who influenced her interest in art.
[2] In 1966 and 1970, Warburg took courses with the Norwegian knitting expert Helen Engelstad in Oslo, extending her expertise in weaving and colouring.
[2] Warburg has served on the board of Danmarks Designskole (1970–97) and in 1991 became a member of the Centre Internationale d’Etudes des Textiles Anciennes in Lyon, France.