Combined book offer: The King's Servants & The Queen's Servants - REVISED 2ND EDITIONS

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Book 1:

The Queen's Servants written by Caroline Johnson; edited by Jane Malcolm-Davies and Ninya Mikhaila

• 56 pages full-colour pages
• Patterns for smocks, kirtles, gowns and headwear with variations and comprehensive step-by-step making instructions
• Over 25 historical illustrations
• Detailed line drawings and illustrations by Michael Perry
• Photographs showing finished reconstructed garments worn by real people
• Paperback
• 8in x 10in (20.5cm x 25.5cm)

The Queen's Servants offers detailed insight into women’s dress at the beginning of the 16th century. It paints a vivid picture of the styles of dress worn at Henry VII’s and Henry VIII’s courts, using evidence from royal warrants and account books in The National Archive. Purchases by the Great Wardrobe for the ladies of gentle birth who attended the queens and their children are clues to the appropriate appearance of a woman in close contact with the royal family.

Transcriptions and translations of more than 200 pages of original Latin and English documents dating from 1485 to 1520 reveals a wealth of fascinating facts about garments for gentlewomen serving at the Tudor court, including precise evidence of fabrics and yardages provided, highlighting features of cut and construction.

The patterns include several styles of smock, a typical kirtle and two styles of gown with a range of neckline and sleeve variations. Bonnets, pastes and frontlets (or ‘gable’ hoods) are the usual items of headwear issued to gentlewomen during the era. Suggestions for recreating these are also provided.

Book 2:

The King's Servants written by Caroline Johnson; edited by Jane Malcolm-Davies and Ninya Mikhaila

• 52 full-colour pages
• Patterns for shirts, doublet, hose, coat, jacket and bonnets with variations and comprehensive step-by-step making instructions
• Over 20 historical illustrations
• Detailed line drawings and illustrations by Michael Perry
• Photographs showing finished reconstructed garments worn by real people
• Paperback
• 8in x 10in (20.5cm x 25.5cm)

The King's Servants offers detailed insight into middle-class men’s clothing at the beginning of the 16th century. It provides a vivid picture of Henry VIII’s early court using evidence from royal warrants and account books in The National Archive.

Transcriptions and translations of more than 200 hand-written pages of the original 16th century Latin and English documents reveal a wealth of fascinating facts about garments for servants at the Tudor court. The typical clothes worn by middling men during the decades between the battles of Bosworth (1485) and Flodden (1513) are described and reconstructed in this beautifully illustrated book.

Previously unpublished documents provide details of the usual allocation of dress to different ranks of servants at the royal court. The book focuses on the middle-ranking men who were clerks, messengers and huntsmen.

The book features patterns for a man’s complete costume, including shirts, doublet, hose, coat, jacket and bonnets with variations.