Reference Library

After writing a post about some of the books in my library that I use for reference during the costuming process, I decided it might just be easier to have a catch-all location to list books that I use for research and update it as needed. In posts for specific costumes I will include what references I used.


General Sewing References

• The Dressmaker's Technique Bible by Lorna Knight
• Designer Joi's Fashion Sewing Workshop by Joi Mahon
• Couture Sewing Techniques by Claire B. Shaeffer
• The Dressmaker's Handbook of Couture Sewing Techniques by Lynda Maynard
• Threads Sewing Guide and Threads Magazine

English Medieval (1100 - 1480) References

• The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Common Garments 1100 - 1480 2nd Edition by Sarah Thursfield

Elizabethan/Tudor References

• The Modern Maker Vol 1 & 2 by Mathew Gnagy
• The Tudor Tailor by Ninya Mikhalia and Jane Malcolm-Davies
• The Tudor Child by Jane Huggett and Ninya Mikhaila
• Patterns of Fashion: the cut and construction of clothes for men and women c 1560 -1620 by Janet Arnold
• Patterns of Fashion 4: the cut and construction of linen shirts, smocks, neckwear, headwear and accessories for men and women c1560 - 1620 by Janet Arnold
• Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd by Janet Arnold
• How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life by Ruth Goodman
• The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
• The Cheapside Hoard London's Lost Jewels by Hazel Forsyth
• Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts & the Russian Tsars edited by Olga Dmitrieva and Tessa Murdoch

Austrian 16th Century

• Drei Schnittbucher Three Austrian Master Tailor Books of the 16th Century by Katherine Barich and Marion McNealy

English 17th Century References

• Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns Book One and Book Two edited by Susan North and Jenny Tiramani

Ottoman Empire / Turkish (15th century to 19th century?)

• Topkapi Saray Museum: Costumes, Embroideries and other Textiles translated, expanded and edited by J. M. Rogers from the original Turkish by Hulye Tezcan and Selma Delibas
• Women's Costume of the Near and Middle East by Jennifer Scarce
• Imperial Ottoman Textiles catalogued by Donald King
• Ottoman Embroidery by Marianne Ellis and Jennifer Wearden