17th Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book Two
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Book Two in the V&A's groundbreaking series presents seventeen patterns for garments and accessories from a 17th century woman's wardrobe, including both historical context and dressmaker's instructions for each of the detailed chapters on each piece. The book delves into the intricate detail of the techniques involved in historical tailoring and dressmaking. Scale patterns, precise construction diagrams, an abundance of informative details, and x-ray photographs that reveal the hidden structure of each piece are accompanied by color photography of the finished article.
Featured garments are 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. The full construction sequence is given for each garment in a technically accurate, visually exciting, step-by-step format to enable the reader to accurately reconstruct them, including scale patterns and diagrams for making linen and metal thread laces and embroidery designs.
Along with other titles in the series, 17th Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book One and 17th Century Men's Dress Patterns, this book offers a unique resource for costume designers, dress and social historians, students, and fashion enthusiasts alike.
Author/Artist/Designer
Susan North, Jenny TiramaniPages
160
Dimensions
27.94cm x 31.75cm
ISBN
9781851776856
Colour
Product code
113236
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J.Tiramani and S.North
Susan North is Senior Curator in the V&A Fashion, Textiles and Furniture Department. Jenny Tiramani, Luca Costigliolo, Claire Thornton, Armelle Lucas and Christine Prentis, who produced the patterns for the book, were all members of the wardrobe team at Shakespeare's Globe between 1999 and 2005, where they researched and reconstructed Elizabethan and Jacobean clothing for Globe theatre productions. They are all founder members of The School of Historical Dress, a new venture established in 2010 to teach a practical object-based approach to the subject.