Quoting Carmen Beaudry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: *snip*
The book you're looking for is "History of Western Embroidery" by Shuette. I think I've got that right, if I don't, please someone correct me. Good luck trying to find it, though. It's been out of print for ages, the copy I owned fell victim to a friend's bad divorce and was destroyed, and my local library's copy has been stolen.
I may have missed something, I just did a cursory look (and my copy is titled "The ARt of Embroidery," but the most common title is "Pictorial History of Embroidery" or "Das Stieckerwerk"), but ...
Until the 16th century, the only garments in Schuette are Ecclestical (Copes, Dalmaticas, Chasubles, Orphreys, etc.) and they're not designed to be reversible. I can't say none of the 16th century garments are designed to be seen on both sides, but none of them look like it, and none of them are chemises/shifts/shirts -- they're jackets, night caps, coifs, etc.
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