Re: [h-cost] Books with scaled patterns (pre 1600)

2009-03-23 Thread Melanie Schuessler
On Mar 20, 2009, at 2:35 PM, sunshine.k.buch...@kp.org wrote: There's also the theatrical costuming books but I don't collect those... so I don't know them off the top of my head... except for: Patterns for Theatrical Costumes by Katherine Stand Holkeboer I would echo the caution of anothe

Re: [h-cost] Books with scaled patterns (pre 1600)

2009-03-20 Thread Patricia Dunham
Indeed, there are several easily-available theatrical costuming books -- just remember, ease-of-availability doesn't have ANYthing to do with how accurate the patterns are. Hill & Bucknell, anyone? chimene ... There's also the theatrical costuming books but I don't collect those... so I don'

Re: [h-cost] Books with scaled patterns (pre 1600)

2009-03-20 Thread Sunshine . K . Buchler
The Cut of Men's Clothes 1600-1900 by Norah Waugh - I think it has something from 1600, but I'm at work and my copies' at home so I can't check... The Cut of Women's Clothes 1600-1930 by Norah Waugh - ditto the above comment Patterns of Fashion 4: The Cut and Construction of Linen Shirts, Smocks

Re: [h-cost] Books with scaled patterns (pre 1600)

2009-03-19 Thread Heather Rose Jones
On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Elizabeth Walpole wrote: Hi everyone, I'm teaching a class next month at an SCA event on how to enlarge scaled patterns in books to full size. I was going to include a list of books relevant to SCA costumers (for those who aren't aware the SCA's time period is

Re: [h-cost] Books with scaled patterns (pre 1600)

2009-03-19 Thread Susan Farmer
Quoting Elizabeth Walpole : Hi everyone, I'm teaching a class next month at an SCA event on how to enlarge scaled patterns in books to full size. I was going to include a list of books relevant to SCA costumers (for those who aren't aware the SCA's time period is roughly 600 to 1600) with scaled

[h-cost] Books with scaled patterns (pre 1600)

2009-03-19 Thread Elizabeth Walpole
Hi everyone, I'm teaching a class next month at an SCA event on how to enlarge scaled patterns in books to full size. I was going to include a list of books relevant to SCA costumers (for those who aren't aware the SCA's time period is roughly 600 to 1600) with scaled patterns, so far I've got Patt