Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction and Acknowledgements -- The tools and techniques of the tailor and seamstress -- Embroidery tools and techniques -- Knitting stitches -- Sewing stitches -- Embroidery stitches -- How to use this book -- THE PATTERNS -- Margaret Layton's waistcoat, 1610-15 -- Pink silk waistcoat, 1610-20 -- Blackwork waistcoat, 1620-25 -- Fustian waistcoat, 1630s -- Slashed satin bodice, 1630s -- Knitted silk waistcoat, 1630-1700 -- Embroidered lined mantle, 1590-1610 -- Linen smock, 1620-40 -- Lined hood, 1600-1640 -- Embroidered coif and forehead cloth, 1600-1650 -- Linen band and cuffs, 1630-35 -- Embroidered partlet and sleeve panels, 1615-25 -- Linen kerchief, 1600s -- Embroidered linen gloves, 1600-1625 -- Embroidered kid gloves, 1610-30 -- Bibliography
