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 ground-breaking use of x-ray photography revealing the hidden elements of the clothes, the precise number of layers and the stitches used inside.
Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment alongside photographs of the objects and the ground-breaking use of x-ray photography revealing the hidden elements of the clothes, the precise number of layers and the stitches used inside.
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- Authors:
- North, Susan|Tiramani, Jenny
- Year Published:
- 2011
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781851776313
- Number of Pages:
- 160
- Publication Date:
- 18/04/2011
- Publisher:
- V A Publishing
- Publication Date:
- 18/04/2011
- Publisher:
- V & A Publishing
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781851776313