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Seventeenth Century Women's Dress Patterns

Book One

Susan North author Jenny Tiramani author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:V & A Publishing

Published:18th Apr '11

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Seventeenth Century Women's Dress Patterns cover

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

ISBN: 9781851776313

Dimensions: 276mm x 314mm x 20mm

Weight: 1490g

160 pages