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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 391.00942
EAN: 9780486429854
ISBN: 0486429857
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: December 02, 2003
Publisher: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:





Rating: - Interesting Ideas
This book, to me, is really neat in that it actually shows you the measurements for simple costume projects.

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Rating: - Just guidelines
It's a nice book, it covers all the areas of the medieval society... but briefly.
It has a lot of images, and some sketched patterns, but it's of no great use if you're a newcomer to both medieval clothes and sewing techniques.
Used together with some other books, it can come in handy.
With goods and bads, it worths its price.

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Rating: - Disappointing from the title
Medieval Costume - yes. Sorta. I guess. She doesn't give much in the way of proof for her costuming conjectures. Lots of drawings and narrative, but really no citations worth mention.

How to Recreate it? Not at all. not a bit. Not even so much as a cutting diagram or a single discussion of how to cut, sew, assemble or reproduce the garments.

Very disappointing.

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Rating: - a very good book to know and sew medieval costume
Even if I am french I can use this book to realize medieval costumes. The patterns are very good and the explanations quite easy.

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Rating: - For the serious Re-inactor
I'm of mixed feelings on this book .
First, if you don't own a single costuming book, then get it, just for some inspiration.

The best reason for anyone to get the book is the illustrations......over 200 period illustrations to use for inspiration.
Granted, they're in black and white.......so you don't get the colors to see, but Ms Hartley often describes the colors, so that helps.
She has provided a number of pages of detailed line-drawing illustrations to help explain/show how cloth was cut and sewn to create various outfits.
As such, they are helpful, sometimes.
Ditto, other times they are off the mark.

Some of her interpretations are, shall I say 'creative' without adequate proof in her period sources to support her theories of construction.
With that, I have some major problems, but if her purpose is to give a resonable facsimile for stage interpretation, then her theories are adequate.
If her purpose was to provide ... Read More

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