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This innovative and breathtakingly detailed book from the V&A
presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery, and
making instructions (including a knitting pattern and lacemaking)
for 15 garments and accessories from a 17th-century British woman's
wardrobe. Step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence and
scale patterns for each garment enable readers to accurately
reconstruct them. There are scale diagrams for making linen and
metal thread laces, silk braids, and embroidery designs. Multiple
photographs, close-up construction details, and X-ray photography
reveal the hidden elements of the clothes, the number of layers,
and the stitches used inside. This first book in a new series takes
the physical examination and study of historical clothing to a new
depth and degree of detail, using the expertise of designers,
tailors, and makers from London's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
This beautifully illustrated book reveals the sharp pleats, high
collars, gleaming pastes, colourful beads, elaborate buttons and
intricate lacework that make up some of the garments in the
Victoria and Albert Museum's extensive fashion collection. With an
expertly written text by one of the museum's fashion curators and
exquisite colour photography of garment details, complemented by
line drawings and photographs, the reader has the unique
opportunity to examine up close historical clothing that is often
too fragile to be on display. It is an inspirational resource for
students, collectors, designers and anyone who is fascinated by
fashion and costume. This new edition features an updated design,
fresh content and new research, and an introduction that focuses on
the makers and processes involved in producing 18th-century
fashion.
Book Two in the V&A's groundbreaking new series presents 17
patterns for garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century
woman's wardrobe. It includes patterns for a loose gown, a jacket,
a pair of stays and a boned bodice, ivory and wooden busks, shoes,
a hat, a stomacher, linen bands and supporters, a bag and a knife
case. It also features a description of the stay-making process.
Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given
for each garment to enable the reader to accurately reconstruct
them. There are scale patterns and diagrams for making linen and
metal thread laces and embroidery designs. Multiple photographs of
the objects, close-up construction details and X-ray photography
reveal the hidden elements of the clothes, the precise number of
layers and the stitches used inside.
This eclectic collection of verse covers a wide spectrum of
thoughts, observations and emotions - some are funny, others
heartfelt, but most of all, every single one is genuine and
sincere. Susan North experienced an enormous traumatic shock when
her husband suddenly collapsed from a genetic disease, which
resulted in major life-saving heart surgery, and she now has the
responsibility of being his carer. But out of all this, like a
phoenix from the flames, came the poetry - a salve to the soul -
and the writing helps to calm Susan and keep the stress at bay.
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