The Typical Tudor: reconstructing everyday 16th century dress
The Typical Tudor: reconstructing everyday 16th century dress
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By Jane Malcolm-Davies and Ninya Mikhaila
• 216 full-colour pages
• Patterns for over 50 garments for men and women with comprehensive step-by-step instructions
• Over 140 historical illustrations
• Instructions for knitted items, including stockings, caps, sleeves and garters
• Detailed line drawings and diagrams by Michael Perry
• Photographs showing finished reconstructed garments worn by real people
• Paperback
• 9in x 11in (20.5cm x 28cm)
The Tudor Tailor’s latest book builds on the research carried out for The Tudor Tailor (2006) with a focus on ordinary people's clothing in the 16th century. At 216 pages it is significantly larger than previous works and includes sewing and knitting patterns for more than 50 garments appropriate for lower-class and middle-class people.
The book presents a thorough survey of evidence for the dress of common people by diligently cross-referencing pictorial, archaeological and documentary sources.
A statistically rigorous analysis of over 57,000 items of dress drawn from wills, inventories, probate accounts and household expenses identifies the most popular garments with trends in textiles and colours and interprets them in the context of the acts of apparel and royal proclamations on clothes as they applied to those below knights in Tudor society.
Little-known images from museums, churches, private collections and archives serve to illustrate a range of garments in detail while more familiar pictorial sources are presented as evidence for construction techniques.
Detailed drawings and diagrams show styles of clothing, headwear and other accessories appropriate to ordinary people. Photographs of reconstructions illustrate how the garments contribute to accurate clothing ensembles for specific date ranges.
Historians and archaeologists, designers and costumiers, educators and reenactors will find The Typical Tudor a robust and essential guide for a range of reconstruction projects from scholarly studies to festival events.
This book is also available at a discount in a combined offer with The Tudor Child.
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Wonderful source. Quick delivery.
A gift for the wife. She is making costumes for Shakespearean plays and finds this book very helpful .
Thank you for the review. We hope your wife finds the book interesting and informative.
I bought alot to books with patterns, kit for hoodmaking and ribbons ans well as dress patterns and patterns for mens clothing. Everything arrived fast and safe, well packed and without any hickups anywhere along the way.
I am now so exited that I have difficulties deciding what to start with.
Thank you soo very much for this and I will make sure to come back again.
Hi Bjorn,
Thank you for such a charming review. Please do send us pictures of your completed projects, you have a lot to choose from!
Best wishes,
Melanie @ The Tudor Tailor Team
In this book you'll find EVERYTHING necessary facts about Tudor clothing and especially for reenactors with patterns. Throughly researched and highly recommendable.
It's real quality and worth every penny. The research is fantastic and I'm looking forward to trying the patterns.