Seventeenth-century ; women's dress patterns

• Date de parution : 07/01/2011
• Editeur : Victoria And Albert Museum
• EAN : 9781851776313
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : 160
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Anglais
• Thème : Art en langue anglaise
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

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... Voir plus

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.