Seventeenth Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book One

Tiramani, Jenny, North, Susan

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 the ground-breaking use of x-ray photography revealing the hidden elements of the clothes, the precise number of layers and the stitches used inside.

EAN

9781851776313

Publisher

V & A Publishing

Published

18 April 2011

Pages

160