Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Bk. 1 (Womens Dress Patterns 1)

by SusanNorth (Editor), JennyTiramani (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $34.70

  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.