Name/Title
Seventeenth-century women's dress patterns, book 2Entry/Object ID
TT520.S48.v2Description
Book two in the V&A’s groundbreaking new series presents 17 patterns for garments and accessories from a 17th-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.Lexicon
Search Terms
clothing and dress--history--17th century, dress accessories, dressmaking--patterns, fashion--history--17th centuryBook Details
Author
Claire Thornton, Susan North, Jenny TiramaniPublisher
V & A PublishingPlace Published
City
LondonCountry
England, United KingdomContinent
EuropeDate Published
2012Call No.
TT520.S48.v2ISBN
1851776850, 9781851776856LCCN
2011935131Notes
Length: 160