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Book reviews, bibliographies and pattern sources.

 

NOTE: See also these files: patterns-msg, merch-cloth-lst, clothing-bib,  clothing-FAQ, clothing-msg, costuming-lnks, p-sumpt-laws-msg, smptuary-laws-lnks.

 

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From: 21464RM%MSU.BITNET at MITVMA.MIT.EDU ("Roseann.Miller")

Date: 7 May 90 18:43:18 GMT

 

Greetings to the Rialto, and esp. Elizabeth of Braidwood:

 

I have been experimenting with glovemaking, and have come up with a

few reference books you may find useful:

 

Collins, C. Cody.  Love of a Glove. New York, Fairchild Publishing, 1949.

  (has a simple history of gloves, some photos of period gloves from 1500

   on, and some quickie hints on leatherworking for gloves)

Cummings, Valerie.  Gloves.  London, Batsford. 1982. (Good historical

  info, but starts at 1600.  Does very briefly cover Elizabethan gloves,

  and has reproduction of mid-17th-century patterns for gloves)

Johnson.  Leatherwork.  London, C.A. Pearson, 1949. (Leatherworking

  how-to with instructions for making both lined and unlined leather gloves.

  The patterns given are not too far off from the ones in Cummings)

Smith, F.R.  Practical Leatherwork.  New York, Pitman. 1946.  (Dover took

  over this one, but I don't know if it's being published anymore.  Like

  Johnson, a modern book but with adaptable patterns and helpful how-tos

  on construction).

 

There are also extant period gloves to be found in books on period

embroidery and costume accessories.  There are knitted gloves in pictures

and references, knitters on the Net may know of some.

 

<snip>

 

Hopefully this information will be helpful.  Next project - gloves for

archery before the Pennsic!

 

     Roxanne of Bloekmedwe                :   R. Miller

     Barony of the NorthWoods, Midrealm   :   Okemos, MI

 

 

From: gwilym at micor.ocug.on.ca (Bill Sanderson)

Date: 15 Oct 90 12:51:32 GMT

Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.

 

Greetings again, from Gwilym

 

The book I referred to earlier is:

 

Tartans: Their Art and History, Ann Sutton & Richard Carr, Arco Publishing

inc., New York, 1984.  In the bibliography the following book is mentioned:

 

History of Highland Dress, J. Telfer Dunbar, Oliver & Boyd and Batson,

London, 1962 and 1979. (Some editions have an excellent appendix on

"Early Scottish Highland Dyes" by Annette Kok.)

 

Awilda:

 

The lichen dyes which were and are used in the Highlands produce some

very bright colours, without mordants. The book referred to above has

a colour plate of lichen and vegetable dyed skeins, and the colours

while somewhat muted from modern chemical dyes, are quite bright.

 

The interesting thing about this book is that it gives the setts for

all of the registered and many of the unregistered clan

 

 

From: sharpwa!grendal!nam at nosun.west.sun.com (Nicholas Marcelja)

Date: 1 Jan 91 22:14:26 GMT

Subject: Bibliography for Corset class

 

Tailor's Pattern Book 1589 (facsimile)  Juan de Alcega

Ruth Bean; Carlton, Bedford  1979

 

Hispanic Costume 1480-1530  Ruth Matilda Anderson

Hispanic Society of America; NY  1979

 

Patterns of Fashion (1560-1620)  Janet Arnold

Drama Books; NY  1985

 

Cut My Cote  Dorothy K. Burnham

Royal Ontario Museum; 1973

 

Period Costume for Stage and Screen  Jean Hunnisett

Bell & Hyman Ltd.; London  1986

 

The Annotated Arnold  R.W. Trump

Self-published; 1987

 

A Simple Doublet & Trunkhose  R.W. Trump

Self-published; 1987

 

Corsets and Crinolines  Nora Waugh

Batsford Books; London  1954

 

Cut of Women's Clothes (1600-1930)  Nora Waugh

Faber & Faber, Ltd.: London  1968

 

Nicholas Marcelja ....sun!nosun!sharpwa!grendal!nam

 

Grendal

 

 

From: alg at cs.cornell.edu (Anne Louise Gockel)

Date: 18 Nov 91 18:27:43 GMT

Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853

 

2) Are there any sources of historical costuming patterns

supplies?

 

Patterns and Supplies:

 

Fall Creek Suttlery

P.O. Box 530

Freedom, CA 95019

(408) 728-1888

- $2.00 catalog.  Civil War era items and patterns.

 

La Pelleterie

P.O. Box 127 Highway 41

Arrow Rock, Missouri 65320

(816) 837-3261

- $3.00 catalog.  Coats and cloaks, pre 1840.

 

NE Shutsa Traders

P.O. Box 186

Haven, Kansas 67542

(316) 465-3359

- $1.50 catalog.  Cal/Mex era and horsegear.

 

JAS Townsend & Son

P.O. Box 415

Pierceton, IN 46562

(800) 338-1665

- Hats, cloaks, clasps.

 

Campell's Designs

Box 400

Gratz, PA

17030-0400

- $3.00 catalog. ($4.50 in spring 1991?)  Patterns from 1776-1945

 

Carolina Stitches in Time

Box 10933

Winston-Salem, N.C. 27108

(919) 764-0790

- Period clothing patterns.

 

Amazon Vinegar & Pickling Works

2218 E. 11th St.

Davenport, IA 52803-3760

(319) 322-6800

(800) 798-7979 - orders ONLY and only from the US

(319) 322-4003 - fax

- $2.00 general catalog, $5 for historical patterns catalog.  This is "the

mailing list to be on".  Historical patterns selected from Folkwear, midiaeval

Miscellanea, early western, victorian, hoop-gown era, Past Patterns, Attic

Copies (1920's to 40's), Prairie Clothing, amish, kilts, ethnic and dance.

 

Past Patterns

P.O. Box 7587

Grand Rapids, Michigan 49510

(616) 245-9456

- $3.00 catalog.  Good selection of early 20th century clothing.

 

Mediaeval Miscellanea

7006 Raleigh Road

Annandale, VA 22003

- What else?  Midieaval patterns (think Robin Hood :-).

 

 

Folkwear

The Taunton Press

63 South Main St, Box 5506

Newtown, CT 06470-5506

- Only some of the original patterns have been reprinted, but Tauton is

reprinting others regularly.  Mostly Victorian and Early American patterns.

 

G-Street Fabrics

11854 Rockville Pike

Rockville, Md 20852

(301) 231-8998

 

Fair Winds Pattern Co.

819 N. June St.  

Hollywood, CA 90038.

- Send $1 for small brouchure featuring six patterns. Very nice 1920's jazz

dress, Princess Bride-style wedding gown, a couple of nice casual, day-wear

1920's dresses.  One ho-hum 1940's dress.

 

R.L.Shep.

Box 668

Mendocino, CA 95460.

- 1990-91 catalog has 1000 items.  $2.50 cataog.  Books, magazines and

reprints.  Books related to the costume and textile arts, including out of

print and hard to find books.  Shep has also reprinted a number of older

clothing books, including a couple of books of patterns for Victorian and

Edwardian clothing.

 

Raiments

3345 East Miraloma

Suite 134

Anaheim CA 92806

- Patterns from 1100-1950 representing 15 pattern companies.  Catalog $5

(refundable with purchase).

 

The Cabinet of Vintage Patterns

3522 Deerbrook

Windsor Ontario N8R 2E9

- Canadian company featuring patterns from 1905 to 1930; reproductions of

women's and children's clothing.  Catalog $4.  Some very nice 1910-20 tea

dresses.

 

Old World Enterprises

Dept 302

29036 Kepler Ct

Cold Spring Minn 56320

- 19th century patterns.  $2 for catalog.  Their listing says they specialize

in 19th century garments.  Their patterns aren't copies of existing garments,

though, but originals based on the prevailing styles at the time.  They offer

multiple graded patterns in female sizes 8-10-12-14 and male sizes 38-40-42.

Catalog $2.

 

 

Prairie Clothing Co

3732 Tanager Drive NE

Cedar Rapids IA 52402

(319) 378-0125

- $1 catalog.  Lots of "Little House on the Prairie"-style clothing.  More or

less current clothing styles adapted for a combination prairie/Edwardian feel

without tons of sewing details.

 

Remember When Collection

361 N. Ohio

Salina, KS  67401

- Send SASE for brochure.  "Romantic" clothing. Current designs adapted to a

Victorian feel.

 

Dave Uebele ({ucbvax!ucscc |uunet | sun}!sco!daveu) has provided a fairly

complete list of sources for 1850-1900 clothing and heavy materials

construction.  See his notes later in this article.

 

 

Magazines:

 

Vintage Fashions

Hobby House Press Inc.

900 Frederick St.

Cumberland, MD  21502

-- a bi-monthly magazine focusing on vintage apparel and instructions for

their care and repair.  One-year subscription $19.95, sample copy $2.95.

 

 

Books:

 

Some of these books are out of print. Most of them should be in a good

university library. Some of them will be in the public library:

 

Iris Brooke: "A practical guide to the constuction of theatrical medieval

garments" (or something like that) (Iris Brooke has written a number of

historical costuming books).

 

Alcega, Juan de. Tailor's Pattern Book 1589. (reprint)

 

Burnham, Dorothy.  Cut My Cote. (diagrams of actual historical (and ethnic?)

clothing in the Royal Ontario Museum.  Diagrams are graphed and shown with

metric dimensions.)

 

Hill, Margot Hamilton & Pater A. Buchnell.  The Evolution of Fashion: Pattern

& Cut from 1066-1930.

 

Houston, Mary G. & Florence Hornblower.  Medieval Costumes in England and

France.

 

Holkefer, Katherine Strand.  Patterns for Theatrical Costumes.  Edson, Doris &

Lucy Barton.  Period Patterns.

 

Fernald, Mary.  "Costume Design and Making"

 

From an article on sewing costumes in Threads #30: Waugh, Norah: "The Cut of

Women's Clothes 1600-1930" and "The Cut of Men's Clothes 1600-1900" (Theatre

Arts Books) Concise descriptions and drawings of men's gaments from 1600 to

1900. Includes scaled patterns that can be enlarged.

 

Hillhouse, Marion and Evelyn A Mansfield: Dress Design: Draping and Flat

Pattern Making.  Riverside Press 1948. Clear instructions on draping, with

excellent drawings of bodice, skirt, sleeve, and neckline styles.  Perfect for

reproducing styles of the 1940's.

 

Covey, Liz: The Costumer's Handbook.  Prentice Hall 1980. A good basic source

for the tecniques of theatrical cosumters.

 

Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their

Construction c. 1660-1860; Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and

their Construction c. 1860-1940.  New York. Drama Book Publishers, 1972.

Contains notes on construction techniques and fabrics. Very clear drawings

show the inside of each garment.

 

History of Costume from Ancient Egypt to 20th Century.  Blanche Payne.

c.1965.  New York. Harper & Row. Includes patterns drawn to scale.  One tactic

is to choose a garment in a book, make a transparency of the pattern in the

book, and go buy a pattern as similar as possible.  Then project the

transparency on the wall and use it to adjust the bought pattern to the style

of the garment in the book.

 

Dover has a Pictorial Archive catalog and a Needlework catalog.  The

Needlework catalog includes several books that discuss Renaissance embroidery.

The Pictorial Archive catalog has a FEW books that cover costumes.  Typically

these are books that contain pictures of people in costume.  There are few

(none?)  books with actual costumes drafted.

 

Dover Publications

31 East 2nd St

Mineola, NY 11501.

 

The whole costumer's catalog is probably available from:     

GCFCG (Greater Columbia Fantasy Costumers guild).

P.O. Box 194

Mt. Airy, Md 21771

 

 

Subject: book review: textiles and clothing

Date: 1 Jun 92

From: SHERMAN%TRLN.DECnet at uncvx1.acs.unc.EDU ("Dennis R. Sherman")

Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

Organization: The Internet

 

Greetings to the Rialto from Robyyan.

 

My copy of _Textiles and Clothing_, the latest in the Museum of London

series about medieval finds arrived this weekend.  For those that

don't know, this is a series of books on recoveries from archeological

sites in London.  The first three books in the series are _Knives and

Scabbards_, _Shoes and Pattens_, and _Dress Accessories_. The titles

are indicative of the subject matter of each :-)

 

These books are terrific research and reconstruction material.  They

include detailed descriptions, drawings, and photographs of recovered

articles, in many cases with patterns from articles disassembled for

preservation.  And they have *large* bibliographies.

 

This particular volume, _Textiles and Clothing_, contains information

of interest to anyone working with cloth, although I think it will be

of most use to weavers.  There are no complete garments included,

although there are many fragments (i.e. pieces of a sleeve, a foot

from hose, a couple of hoods, etc.)  I don't think there are sufficient

clothing fragments to base a complete set of garb on the information

here, but the information on details (how to sew buttonholes or

eyelets, making cloth buttons, how hems and edges are turned or bound)

is quite valuable.

 

Selections from the table of contents:  (typos mine, multiple --

indicate places where I left things out)

 

Techniques used in textile production

        wool-hair-linen-wilk-dyes-looms

Wool textiles

        state of preservation-the weaves of the cloths-three-shed

        twills---tabby weaves--tapestry-knitting-felt

Goathair textiles

Linen textiles

        self-patterened weaves -- finishing

Silk textiles

        ---sources of supply---tabby woven---weft-patterened---satin

        damask

Mixed cloths

Narrow wares

        tablet woven braids--fingerloop braids-plaited braids--

        -garters---hairnets

Sewing techniques and tailoring

        sewing threads-sewing techniques-bindings and facings-

        fastening methods---dagges

 

I highly recommend this series for people interested in historical

accuracy in their reconstructions.

 

All are available from Her Majesties Stationary Office (HMSO):

 

        HMSO Publications Centre

        PO Box 276, London, SW8 5DT

        071-873-9090 (remember to dial for England first)

 

They take Visa and MasterCard.  Prices on the books are different, and

vary with the exchange rate.  _Textiles and Clothing_ cost me just

under $55, including surface mail shipping.

 

Bibliographic data (try to get your local library to order these

books! :-) --

 

Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard and Kay Staniland; _Medieval

finds from excavations in London:4, Textiles and Clothing

c.1150-c.1450_; London: HMSO, 1992.  ISBN 0 11 290445 9

 

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* Robyyan Torr d'Elandris  Kapellenberg, Windmaster's Hill Atlantia *

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* Dennis R. Sherman                Triangle Research Libraries Network *

* dennis_sherman at unc.edu       Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill *

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Newsgroups: rec.org.sca

From: sherman at trln.lib.unc.edu (dennis r. sherman)

Subject: Re: Buttons

Organization: Triangle Research Libraries Network

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1993 22:22:09 GMT

 

Philippa d'Ecosse writes:

>I'm not all that good at tying bows with my teeth, I wondered if

>some sort of button might be acceptably period.

 

Geoff Egan and Frances Pritchard, _Dress Accessories c.1150-c.1450,

Medieval Finds from Excavations in London vol.3_, London: HMSO, 1991.  

ISBN 0 11 29044 0

 

Find this book!!!  Available from HMSO bookshops, but you have to call

London to order, and its the most expensive paperback book I've ever

bought.  If you want to call -- country code + 071-873-9090, I think

its a 24 hour order line.

 

Note from the title that this book deals with London in a restricted