Costumes Patterns And Designs

Make Easter a memorable one with these Simplicity historical sewing patterns by Andrea Schewe. Nativity costumes included are for tunics, vest, coat, veil, shawl, headcover, belt, crown, and wings. The suggested fabrics to bring authenticity to your costumes are batiks, broadcloth, lame, jacquards, muslin, raw silk, satin, satin types, twill and velveteen. Be the centerpiece in your church play or winner at the next Halloween party! Includes instructions for (19) sewing patterns with templates. ... [Read More]

An accomplished fashion designer shows women who make their own garments how to improve on store-bought sewing patterns by adjusting the clothing item�s length and other details to reflect personal taste and create a custom fit. The book�s opening chapters present an illustrated guide to the tools, equipment, and fabrics needed for making garments, while also serving as a miniature textbook to teach basic sewing techniques. Chapters that follow offer detailed instruction in adapting and alte... [Read More]

All students of costuming need to learn basic sewing techniques to build costumes for theatrical performance. Basic Sewing for Costume Construction teaches just those fundamentals. Cunningham brings decades of classroom experience as she guides readers with clearly laid-out projects covering hand stitching, fasteners, pinning, sewing, and seams. Additional material on measurement, fabric selection, and use of commercial patterns, as well as three complete construction projects, round out the Sec... [Read More]

Pattern Cutting for Men's Costume is a practicalguide featuring patterns for the most important garments worn by menbetween the 16th and 19th centuries. Easy-to-follow instructionsexplain how to cut patterns for 'average' and individual measurements -with expert advice on how to adapt patterns to fit men of all shapesand sizes.Introductions to each section describe the major developments inmen's dress - revealing how garments evolved - and patterns for periodgarments for which there are no actua... [Read More]

The costume designer's art lies in effective interpretation, collaboration, and execution. Doing so successfully requires a solid foundation in general artistic principles and specific knowledge of how those principles apply to contemporary costume design. In The Magic Garment, Rebecca Cunningham presents readers with just such an artistic foundation and develops it to expose beginning costume designers to the myriad skills they need to develop in order to costume successful stage productions. S... [Read More]

An insider's guide to the world's largest archive of patterns and textiles, the source of inspiration for the globe's top designersEvery season, designers from fashion, home furnishings, textiles, graphic arts, and paper-product industries seek inspiration from patterns to bring their collections to life. Many of these designers - including Beacon Hill, Boden, Calvin Klein, Clinique, Colefax & Fowler, Lululemon, Nike, Oscar de la Renta, Pottery Barn, and Target - look to the Design Library, the ... [Read More]

It's time to get a little wild in these fun-loving, fierce Animal Halloween Costumes. Stretching from head to toe, each full look is customized with headpieces, hand and foot coverings, and even a tail or two. Detailed measurements and instructions are featured for each of these Children's Costumes. Each Kid's Sewing Pattern is detailed in sizes XS-L. There are (4) animal looks to create, including a gorilla, bear, tiger, and lion.

Misses costumes Simplicity sewing pattern 3629, part of Simplicity Autumn 2007 collection. Pattern for 5 looks. For sizes RR (14-16-18-20).

The dressmaker's patterns for the more than 50 different garments included in this volume first appeared in the 1890s in issues of the quarterly The Voice of Fashion. Most of the patterns are for stylish daywear for women, but there are house dresses and nightwear as well, along with a selection of suits and dresses for young boys and girls and several garments for men.Reproduced from rare original issues of The Voice of Fashion, these patterns show that although most ladies' fashions of the 189... [Read More]

This practical and informative guidebook is a "must-have" for anyone planning to create accurate period costumes for theatrical productions and historical reenactments. From short tunics worn by Saxon men in the fifth century to a lady's bustle dress of the late 1800s, this profusely illustrated text contains a wealth of authentic patterns. Information on pattern sizes, materials required, and methods of sewing accompany simply drawn diagrams for Elizabethan doublets, capes, and trunks; a man's ... [Read More]