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Author: Talbot Hughes
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0486136353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This well-researched guide traces the evolution of English fashion for men and women through hundreds of illustrations. More than a history of style, it's a dressmaker's delight, filled with scaled-down patterns for 67 authentic costumes.
Author: Mary Fernald
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0486449068
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Practical, informative guidebook shows how to create everything from short tunics worn by Saxon men in the fifth century to a lady's bustle dress of the late 1800s. 81 illustrations.
Author: Mary Evans
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0486475964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This Dover edition, first published in 2010, is an unabridged republication of How to Make Historic American Costumes, originally published by A. S. Barnes and Company, New York, in 1942."
Author: Mary Fernald
Publisher: Greenpoint Books
Published: 2016-05-24
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781621389934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This practical guide to historical costume is essential for anyone planning to create accurate period costumes for theatrical productions or historical reenactments. From the short tunics of Saxon men of the fifth century to a lady's bustle dress of the late nineteenth century, this richly illustrated work offers an abundance of authentic patterns. Details of pattern sizes, required materials, and sewing methods accompany simple diagrams for Elizabethan doublets, capes, and trunks; a coat and vest from the Restoration; a bell-shaped gown of the eighteenth century; an early nineteenth-century empire gown; a crinoline; and many other items. Diagrams are accurately drawn to scale from working patterns, and there are suggestions for the most suitable colors and textures for costumes of different historical periods. Students of costume design, tailors, and community theater groups will welcome this carefully researched guidebook to fifteen centuries of English costume.
Author: Verna Cook Salomonsky
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2015-11-24
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0486170225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Well-known, richly illustrated reference work, consulted by generations of collectors, curators, dealers, historians, and craftsmen. Each of 101 furniture masterpieces is characterized by a photograph, descriptive text, and several measured drawings.
Author: Karen Baclawski
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is essentially a guide to items of historical dress in British Museum collections. However since there is more surviving historical costume in this country than anywhere else in the world, it doubles as a dictionary of costume, providing information on where to find a specific garment.
Author: R. Turner Wilcox
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0486478718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A treasury of ethnic dress, this book ranges from the Amish of Pennsylvania to the Zulu of South Africa. Alphabetical entries cover more than 150 countries and regions, each represented by six or more illustrations. Six hundred drawings include images of men, women, and children. Captions describe the costumes and their associated traditions.
Author: Iris Brooke
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2013-04-16
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1447486382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Miss Brooke is a well known as an authority on historical costume. In this single volume she covers a history of dress in England from earliest times. The book contains an ample text, four coloured plates, and nearly three hundred drawings in line. This book will prove to be a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the subject, providing a vast amount of information and detail that will be of use to theatrical designers, both professional and amateur. Contents Include: William The Conqueror to Edward III 1066-1327; Edward III to Henry VII 1327-1485; Early Tudors, Henry VII to Elizabeth 1485-1558; Elizabeth to James I 1558-1625; Charles I to James II 1625-84; James II to George III 1685-1760; George III to George IV 1760-1820; George IV, William IV and Victoria 1820-50; Victoria 1850-80; Victoria 1880-1900.
