Period Costume for Stage & Screen: Patterns for Women's Dress, Medieval - 1500

Period Costume for Stage & Screen: Patterns for Women's Dress, Medieval - 1500 by Hunnisett, Jean. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780887346538.

This book is a comprehensive guide to creating period dress. It consists of a series of books detailing the construction of garments, undergarments and outer garments. As well as being accurate, Jean Hunnisetts patterns have been prepared so that they can be readily made up using todays fabrics and sewing methods, and fit the modern female figure. This book concentrates on womens dress for the periods Medieval-1500. It is abundantly illustrated by drawings and photographs and includes scaled patterns as well as step-by-step instructions. Whether you are an amateur, a student or a professional costume maker, this book, and the series it belongs to, is an invaluable source of patterns and techniques.