From evening gowns to sofa pillows, bags to scarves, beads add sophistication and glamour wherever they're applied. And using the tips and techniques in this full-color guide, you can easily select the right beads for your project, prepare the fabric, and develop and transfer your own creative patterns--whether starting from scratch or adding beads to ready-to-wear garments and accessories. Attractive photographs of glittering, colorful beaded items will inspire you to begin right away.
The Tudor Tailor - Techniques and patterns for making historically accurate period clothing
This book is amazing. It provides well-researched and thoroughly referenced information on the clothing of the time, patterns for a comprehensive selection of garments, and useful hints and instructions for actually constructing them. Period portraits, photos of modern reconstructions and surviving garments, and step-by-step illustrations for some construction techniques are provided in color throughout.
The Medieval Tailor's Assistant - Making Common Garments 1200 - 1500
This book covers everything you ever wanted to know about medieval clothing, from measurements, patterns and materials to methods of construction. It has over 400 illustrations of medieval clothing, and 121 patterns for shirts and smocks, cotes, doublets, kirtles, hose, surcotes, cotehardies, gowns, overkirtles, cloaks, children's clothing, headwear, and accessories.
Entrelac: The Essential Guide to Interlace Knitting
One of today's hottest knitting trends is entrelac, a modular technique that results in striking basketwork designs of rows within rows and interlocking diamond patterns. Using only simple knit and purl stitches, knitters can create eye-catching pieces with incredible texture. Entrelac introduces both the history and how-to of this fun style, along with 20 patterns for a variety of garments, home décor items, and baby accessories. Comprehensive instructions and a wide array of swatches provide endless possibilities in lace, colorwork, and much more.
Knitting Book. Full-color reproductions of original pattern swatches, sweaters, and accessories from the Bohus workshop in Sweden_along with the history of the women who designed them are included in this beautiful book. Instructions for 7 different garments are featured, plus step-by-step instructions for 46 design/garment combinations.
