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This breathtakingly detailed book presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery and making instructions for fifteen garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment alongside photographs of the objects and the groundbreaking use of x-ray photography revealing the hidden elements of the clothes, the precise number of layers and the stitches used inside.

Seventeenth Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book

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A Hardback by Susan North, Jenny Tiramani

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    Publisher: V & A Publishing
    Publication Date: 18/04/2011
    ISBN13: 9781851776313, 978-1851776313
    ISBN10: 1851776311
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This breathtakingly detailed book presents dress patterns, construction details, embroidery and making instructions for fifteen garments and accessories from a seventeenth-century woman's wardrobe. Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given for each garment alongside photographs of the objects and the groundbreaking use of x-ray photography revealing the hidden elements of the clothes, the precise number of layers and the stitches used inside.

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