Description
| Product ID: | 9781851776856 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns |
| Authors: | Author: Jenny Tiramani, Susan North |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Fashion and textile design, History of fashion, c 1600 to c 1700 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Book Two in the V&A's groundbreaking new series presents 17 patterns for garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment to enable the reader to accurately reconstruct them. Book Two in the V&A''s groundbreaking new series presents 17 patterns for garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman''s wardrobe. It includes patterns for a loose gown, a jacket, a pair of stays and a boned bodice, ivory and wooden busks, shoes, a hat, a stomacher, linen bands and supporters, a bag and a knife case. It also features a description of the stay-making process. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment to enable the reader to accurately reconstruct them. There are scale patterns and diagrams for making linen and metal thread laces and embroidery designs. Multiple photographs of the objects, close-up construction details and X-ray photography reveal the hidden elements of the clothes, the precise number of layers and the stitches used inside. |
| Imprint Name: | V & A Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | V & A Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-12-03 |
