The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments, 1200-1500From establishing the date for your outfit, defining the wearer, and selecting garments, to measurements, patterns, materials, and methods of construction, for braies, shirts and smocks, cotes, kirtles, doublets, hose, surcotes, cotehardies, gowns, overkirtles, cloaks, children's clothing, head-wear, and on to accessories, this is the perfect costumer's resource all in one volume. There are more than 400 line drawings, including 121 patterns. Book jacket. |
Contents
List of plates | 8 |
Defining the wearer | 15 |
Wearing your outfit | 22 |
Copyright | |
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The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments, 1200-1500 Sarah Thursfield No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
aglets armhole Back and Front backstitch Basic line belt blanket stitch bodice Block body braies breech broken lines buttons calico Centre Back Centre Front cloak cloth cm wide codpiece collar construction line cote cotehardie cuffs curve dagged doublet Draw eyelets Fashionable head-dresses fastened Fig 9 fillet finished flared fold Front line gown gusset head-wear hennin hood interlining joined hose kerchief kirtle lacing layers linen liripipe long peaks mark match material measurement medieval Men's Methods mid 15th century neck edge neckline opening outer fabric outer garment overkirtle oversew pattern pieces plaits Plan pleats round seam allowances SELVEDGES separate hose sewing shape shirt shown side gores side seam lines silk skirts slash sleeve Block sleeve head slit smock stitch straight edge straight grain style surcote Tack thread toile underarm veil vertical waist level wear wearer width wimple women wool wore worn wrist