Margrethe Hald (10 February 1897 - 19 May 1982) was a Danish textile historian and curator at the National Museum of Denmark.
[1][2] Born in the village of Neder Vrigsted, near Horsens in eastern Jutland, Hald was one of four children who were raised on a farming estate managed by her mother after her father died when she was three years old.
Interested in art from an early age, Hald had learned how to weave in the village and at the high schools at Vrigsted and Askov.
While at the Design School for Women (Tegne- og Kunstindustriskolen for Kvinder), she was encouraged by Elna Mygdal (1868-1940), to focus on the history of textiles at the National Museum.
In 1935, together with Hans Christian Broholm (1893-1966) [4] of the National Museum of Denmark, she published Danske Broncealders Dragter (Danish Bronze Age costumes).