Historic American Costumes and How to Make Them - Brossura

Evans, Mary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486475964 ISBN 13: 9780486475967

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2010

Riassunto

This easy-to-use handbook presents step-by-step instructions and patterns for a tremendous variety of clothes and accessories from colonial times through the Civil War. More than eighty illustrations depict Puritan, Dutch, Quaker, and Native American garb as well as military uniforms. A bonus CD features every pattern in vector files.
Drawing upon authentic materials in the collections of major museums, including the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the author presents accurate renditions of generations of American formal and leisure wear. Costumers of all kinds will find this book a source of inexpensive apparel for amateur theater troupes, school pageants, and casual reenactments. It will also prove an inspiration to parents and children seeking informal costumes for Halloween and other occasions.

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Contenuti:

Preface Costumes of the American Indians Indians of the Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Plains Indians of the Southwest Costumes of the Eskimos Costumes of the Eskimos Costumes of the Colonists The Virginians The Carolinians The Puritans The Dutch The Quakers American Dress in the Eighteenth Century Pre-Revolutionary Costumes Revolutionary War Uniforms American Dress, 1800-1870 1800-1810 1820-1840 1840-1850 1850-1870 Civil War Uniforms Appendix Materials Dyeing Construction Bibliography Index

Product Description:

This easy-to-use handbook presents step-by-step instructions and patterns for a tremendous variety of clothes and accessories from colonial times through the Civil War. More than 80 illustrations depict Puritan, Dutch, Quaker, and Native American garb as well as military uniforms. A bonus CD features every pattern in vector files.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0486475964
• ISBN 13: 9780486475967
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 178
• Disegnatore: Brooks Elizabeth