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Mar. 28th, 2006
Costuming book preview
Mar. 28th, 2006 10:42 amIt's not a review, 'cause I don't know enough about the subject matter, but I thought some of you would find this info useful.
Yesterday we got the following book in the mail:
The Tudor Tailor - Reconstruction sixteenth-century dress
by Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies
Both authors are costumers for British historic sites and organizations.
This book blurb describes it better then I can:
"It features: 160 pages; 80 historical illustrations, many in colour; Over 100 specially commissioned line drawings; 36 patterns with full step-by-step instructions and photographs showing finished garments worn by real people.
The first four chapters provide a social history of clothes in the 16th century, drawing on the latest research and primary sources such as ordinary people's wills and surviving royal records. There is discussion of the materials used (only some of which are familiar to today's costume maker), people's financial and social relationships with their clothes, and the changes in dress from birth to death. There is as much emphasis on the clothes of ordinary people as there is on high fashion. There is also general advice on choosing materials,construction methods, and an insight into the Tudor tailor's sewing kit."
They have lots of footnotes going back to primary sources. I spotted a two page table for "Clothing fabrics in the 16th century" with the fabric name, characteristics, use, and contemporary evidence. The patterns start on page 48 and make up the bulk of the book.
The book can be found on Amazon.uk or ordered directly from the authors (which is how we got our copy).
If anyone has questions, I can try to answer them.
Yesterday we got the following book in the mail:
The Tudor Tailor - Reconstruction sixteenth-century dress
by Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies
Both authors are costumers for British historic sites and organizations.
This book blurb describes it better then I can:
"It features: 160 pages; 80 historical illustrations, many in colour; Over 100 specially commissioned line drawings; 36 patterns with full step-by-step instructions and photographs showing finished garments worn by real people.
The first four chapters provide a social history of clothes in the 16th century, drawing on the latest research and primary sources such as ordinary people's wills and surviving royal records. There is discussion of the materials used (only some of which are familiar to today's costume maker), people's financial and social relationships with their clothes, and the changes in dress from birth to death. There is as much emphasis on the clothes of ordinary people as there is on high fashion. There is also general advice on choosing materials,construction methods, and an insight into the Tudor tailor's sewing kit."
They have lots of footnotes going back to primary sources. I spotted a two page table for "Clothing fabrics in the 16th century" with the fabric name, characteristics, use, and contemporary evidence. The patterns start on page 48 and make up the bulk of the book.
The book can be found on Amazon.uk or ordered directly from the authors (which is how we got our copy).
If anyone has questions, I can try to answer them.
Costuming book preview
Mar. 28th, 2006 10:42 amIt's not a review, 'cause I don't know enough about the subject matter, but I thought some of you would find this info useful.
Yesterday we got the following book in the mail:
The Tudor Tailor - Reconstruction sixteenth-century dress
by Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies
Both authors are costumers for British historic sites and organizations.
This book blurb describes it better then I can:
"It features: 160 pages; 80 historical illustrations, many in colour; Over 100 specially commissioned line drawings; 36 patterns with full step-by-step instructions and photographs showing finished garments worn by real people.
The first four chapters provide a social history of clothes in the 16th century, drawing on the latest research and primary sources such as ordinary people's wills and surviving royal records. There is discussion of the materials used (only some of which are familiar to today's costume maker), people's financial and social relationships with their clothes, and the changes in dress from birth to death. There is as much emphasis on the clothes of ordinary people as there is on high fashion. There is also general advice on choosing materials,construction methods, and an insight into the Tudor tailor's sewing kit."
They have lots of footnotes going back to primary sources. I spotted a two page table for "Clothing fabrics in the 16th century" with the fabric name, characteristics, use, and contemporary evidence. The patterns start on page 48 and make up the bulk of the book.
The book can be found on Amazon.uk or ordered directly from the authors (which is how we got our copy).
If anyone has questions, I can try to answer them.
Yesterday we got the following book in the mail:
The Tudor Tailor - Reconstruction sixteenth-century dress
by Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies
Both authors are costumers for British historic sites and organizations.
This book blurb describes it better then I can:
"It features: 160 pages; 80 historical illustrations, many in colour; Over 100 specially commissioned line drawings; 36 patterns with full step-by-step instructions and photographs showing finished garments worn by real people.
The first four chapters provide a social history of clothes in the 16th century, drawing on the latest research and primary sources such as ordinary people's wills and surviving royal records. There is discussion of the materials used (only some of which are familiar to today's costume maker), people's financial and social relationships with their clothes, and the changes in dress from birth to death. There is as much emphasis on the clothes of ordinary people as there is on high fashion. There is also general advice on choosing materials,construction methods, and an insight into the Tudor tailor's sewing kit."
They have lots of footnotes going back to primary sources. I spotted a two page table for "Clothing fabrics in the 16th century" with the fabric name, characteristics, use, and contemporary evidence. The patterns start on page 48 and make up the bulk of the book.
The book can be found on Amazon.uk or ordered directly from the authors (which is how we got our copy).
If anyone has questions, I can try to answer them.