Seventeenth Century Women's Dress Patterns
Book One
Susan North author Jenny Tiramani author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:V & A Publishing
Published:18th Apr '11
Should be back in stock very soon
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