Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns. Book One

Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns. Book One

Hardback (18 Apr 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781851776313
Publisher: V&A
Imprint: V&A Publishing
Pub date:
DEWEY: 646.4320709032
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 1452g
Height: 277mm
Width: 314mm
Spine width: 22mm