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Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 1 (Womens Dress Patterns 1)
Susan North
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Description for Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 1 (Womens Dress Patterns 1)
Hardcover. 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 x-ray photography. Editor(s): North, Susan; Tiramani, Jenny. Num Pages: 160 pages, 350 colour, 700 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JD; AKTH; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 279 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1492.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
V&A Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851776313
SKU
V9781851776313
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-5
About Susan North
Susan North is Curator in the V&A Fashion, Textiles and Furniture Department. Jenny Tiramani, Luca Costigliolo, Claire Thornton and Armelle Lucas, who produced the patterns for the book, were all members of the wardrobe team at Shakespeare's Globe between 1999 and 2005.
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