THE MEDIEVAL TAILOR’S ASSISTANT: Making Common Garments 1200-1500

Ruth Bean Publishers, Carlton, UK

Year 2001

Pages 225

From 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.

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