Cover art for Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns
Published
Victoria & Albert, June 2011
ISBN
9781851776313
Format
Hardcover, 160 pages
Dimensions
27cm × 30.5cm × 2cm

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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.

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