Wish I was home for you to browse my books, Catherine - for female attire
Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century - Natalie Rothstein ISBN
0-8212-1812-3 comes to mind as well as the V&A Museum's Textile
ollection - woven textile design in Britian to 1750 ISBN 1-55859-849-9
but there are many more - "Fashion in Detail" - both "Art of Dress"
books...
Dang it I have at least a half doz books you could check out - if you have
no luck contact me off line and I'll scan some stuff for you
Sarah
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It looks like I will be helping a local community theater costume
Moliere's The Miser. I've worked with this director once before, he
would like a period look and respects my attempts to be as authentic as
possible for the chosen era (18thC) That being said, since I will be
relying on family members of the cast for some of the costume
construction I will probably be resorting to some of Butterick's
patterns (#4315 &4317) to get these made.
Sooooo, I would like to try to get the fabric as authentic as possible.
My 'eye' however is more trained for 16th C and earlier. Does anyone
have suggestions for a couple of books I could use to browse through to
get a feel for fabrics and patterns for this era?
Thanks,
Catherine
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