Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It (Dover Fashion and Costumes)

this Unique Reference Classifies The Clothes And Accessories Of The 12th Through The 15th Centuries Along Social Lines. Garments Of Every Type, From The Wardrobes Of Peasants And Nobility, Appear In Over 200 Period Illustrations And Patterns. Helpful Advice Covers: Choosing Fabrics, Placement Of Seams, Draping And Folding Garments, More. 203 Black-and-white Illustrations. This clear-cut, accurate, and richly detailed guide is much more than just another history of costume. It takes an effective adn fresh approach, classifying the clothes and accessories of the twelfth through fifteenth centuries along social lines. Garments of every type from the wardrobes of peasants not as inanimate museum exhibits but as items of vital interest and well worth recreating. Here is the apparel of royalty, clerics, doctors, merchants, musicians, knights, artisans, farmers, and laborers--all magnificently illustrated with images from tapes--tries and illuminated manuscripts as well as in drawings and diagrams. Helpful advice covers choosing fabrics; placement of seams draping and folding garments; how to walk, dance, and climb stairs in unfamiliar and sometimes cumbersome medieval attire; and even the best methods of storage. Essential for professional costume and fashion designers, this book will prove invaluable to Renaissance fair-goers and others who delight in medieval style This clear-cut, accurate, and richly detailed guide is much more than just another history of costume. It takes an effective and fresh approach, classifying the clothes and accessories of the twelfth through fifteenth centuries along social lines. Garments of every type from the wardrobes of peasants and nobility appear in over 200 period illustrations and patterns, presented not as inanimate museum exhibits but as items of vital interest and well worth recreating. Here is the apparel of royalty, clerics, doctors, merchants, musicians, knights, artisans, farmers, and laborers -- all magnificently illustrated with images from tapestries and illuminated manuscripts as well as in drawings and diagrams. Helpful advice covers choosing fabrics; placement of seams; draping and folding garments; how to walk, dance, and climb stairs in unfamiliar and sometimes cumbersome medieval attire; and even the best methods of storage. Clear-cut and accurate in its guidance, this volume depicts medieval clothes and accessories not as inanimate museum exhibits but as items of vital interest and well worth recreating. Unlike conventional costume histories, which tend to classify their contents by era, this volume portrays the clothing of the twelfth through 15th centuries according to the wearer's social class. Here are the garments of royalty, clerics, doctors, merchants, musicians, knights, artisans, farmers, and laborers all magnificently illustrated with images from tapestries and illuminated manuscripts as well as in drawings and diagrams. Helpful advice covers choosing fabrics; placement of seams; draping and folding garments; how to walk, dance, and climb stairs in the cumbersome unfamiliarity of flowing attire; and even the best methods of storage.