Victorian pattern books

By Static. 08/05/09, 07:23 am

So I'm looking at buying these two books:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486283577/thecostumersmani
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486407217/thecostumersmani

and was wondering if anybody already had them, or knew if they were as absolutely fantastically awesome as they look? I will more than likely buy them anyway, just curious to see if they were a common resource or not :)

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oooo *will steal them once you get them and photocopy the hell out of them Very Happy

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The only vintage pattern books I have are Tudor ones...but they look awesome...you must of course let a fellow Victorian era lover borrow them...lol

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By Static. 08/05/09, 07:42 am

Of course, lmao - sharing is caring after all Razz

from the previews on Amazon, it looks physics awesome!

By neimhaille. 08/05/09, 11:52 am

They aren't bad. I found them a tad boring to be honest ;) But that's because when I got them out I was super dead keen on c1880s fashion ;) So I may have been biased when I read them. Lots of patterns though, and that's the main thing :)

There are free patterns out there and I may have some files I may be willing to share so long as they don't get used for the comp! I will hunt out the online pattern books as I found more than a few. Sadly my favourite seems to have been taken down sad

Oh and I am going to take a pattern from my 1893ish bodice soon. It's very pretty and a bottle green jacquard. Probably about the time I get a Hussar's uniform to take a pattern from in a few months Very Happy

By Mischa. 08/05/09, 11:59 am

Hussar's jackets are so amazing

By neimhaille. 08/05/09, 12:05 pm

http://openlibrary.org/a/OL4382111A/Talbot-Hughes

http://openlibrary.org/b/OL22569444M/Historic-English-costumes-and-how-to-make-them
Ahhh, this is why it is no longer available for free. Dover bought it to reprint ;) Yay actually as I may be able to get my own copy now Very Happy

Very much worth it. Even if a few bodices are worn backwards and on women clearly of the 1910s era ;)

By Static. 08/05/09, 01:14 pm

Oo-er, this is for the comp! Don't say too much! I bought them both today, got them for dirt cheap (well, relative dirt anyway Razz

) so couldn't really pass 'em up. The patterns were what I was after, lol! I'm still trying to narrow down which eras are mixed up in this design - if I ask you for help *after* the comp, would that be okay? Razz

EditL Oh! That reminds me - neimheille, I linked to glittersweet.com from my site, but I used one of my photos of your Catwoman for the banner...is that all cool? URL is cosplay.little-noise.com if you want to take a peek - wasn't sure of some of the copyrights on your photos. Embarassed

By neimhaille. 08/05/09, 02:42 pm

No worries, if they are your photos that's cool, I have a few photos that I am allowed to use from photographers but I can't really allow their use by others :)

And no worries either :) I have a thing for patterns, and if you already have the books winging their way I can happily post more pattern books online for others to share in the love too :)

I do some tutorials on historic patterning with the SCA group up here so if anyone is every interested in it I'd love to see more faces (it's on a Sunday) :) I'll be decifering Alcega in the next few weeks (16thC Spanish tailoring manual, brilliant but a bit like a jigsaw ;) )
http://www.renaissancetailor.com/
A few scans here from simialr books.

http://www.vintageconnection.net/RegencyDressesAndPatterns.htm
This is a sample from the Talbot Hughes book :)

http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/leloirpatterns.htm
Leloir, another costume historian.

http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4399915
The
elements of modern dressmaking for the amateur and professional
dressmaker
Davis, Jeanette E.
Cassell Publ. Co.,
New York
:
[c1894].

http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/1898cuttersguide9a.htm
http://www.tudorlinks.com/treasury/freepatterns/index.html
http://www.costumes.org/history/galleryimages/1911ladiestailor/index.htm
http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/1912thornton1.htm
http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/18thpatterns.htm
http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/xoom_nbci/otherpatterns.htm

And just to get really oldfashioned...
http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/textil/dress.html
Egyptian dress :) There is even a beaded tunic or two out there :)
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