Description
| Product ID: | 9781851776313 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Seventeenth Century Women's Dress Patterns |
| Subtitle: | Book One |
| Authors: | Author: Jenny Tiramani, Susan North |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Fashion and textile design, History of fashion, Needlework and fabric crafts, Needlework & fabric crafts, c 1600 to c 1700 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This breathtakingly detailed book presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery and making instructions for fifteen garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment alongside photographs of the objects and x-ray photography. This innovative and breathtakingly detailed book from the V&A presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery, and making instructions (including a knitting pattern and lacemaking) for 15 garments and accessories from a 17th-century British woman''s wardrobe. Step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence and scale patterns for each garment enable readers to accurately reconstruct them. There are scale diagrams for making linen and metal thread laces, silk braids, and embroidery designs. Multiple photographs, close-up construction details, and X-ray photography reveal the hidden elements of the clothes, the number of layers, and the stitches used inside. This first book in a new series takes the physical examination and study of historical clothing to a new depth and degree of detail, using the expertise of designers, tailors, and makers from London''s Shakespeare''s Globe Theatre. |
| Imprint Name: | V & A Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | V & A Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-04-18 |
