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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

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