History Renaissance Costumes

A valuable sourcebook for costume designers, dressmakers and those involved in historical reenactments, this book contains all the information you need to create authentic clothes from the Tudor period. Computer-generated, historically accurate patterns enable you to make a wide range of garments, such as doublets, hose, bodices, skirts, hats and headdresses -- even underwear. There are also plenty of ideas for decoration and embellishment such as ruffs, cuffs, collars, embroidery and other surf... [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]

This publication, the first of its kind in many decades, draws together thirty-six rare and sumptuous European textiles created between the late fourteenth and late sixteenth centuries. Incorporating objects made both for secular and liturgical use, it explores the contexts of their creation, their functions and purpose, and their changing fortunes over the course of the subsequent centuries.After goldsmiths' work, tapestries and embroideries were among the costliest art forms of the Middle Ages... [Read More]

Includes King Arthur Medieval Costume, Red, with Tunic, Cape & Crown. Please note that all our Smiffys products will always come in full Smiffys branded packaging.

The only substantial treatment of this renowned Old Master's portraiture in printAccompanies the major exhibition at The Frick Collection from February to June 2019Offers new insights by experts in the field with accessibly written text Giovanni Battista Moroni is considered one of the great portraitists of sixteenth-century Italy. Published with The Frick Collection to accompany the first major exhibition devoted to the artist in the United States, this sumptuous volume celebrates the painter's... [Read More]

The Tattoo History Source Book is an exhaustingly thorough, lavishly illustrated collection of historical records of tattooing throughout the world, from ancient times to the present. Collected together in one place, for the first time, are texts by explorers, journalists, physicians, psychiatrists, anthropologists, scholars, novelists, criminologists, and tattoo artists. A brief essay by Gilbert sets each chapter in an historical context. Topics covered include the first written records of tatt... [Read More]

Knights clad in chain mail populate these pages, alongside crowned heads in royal regalia and common folk in their finest apparel. Scrupulously authentic in every detail, these images offer colorful portraits that span centuries of fashion, from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance.Raphaël Jacquemin was preeminent among the fashion illustrators and historians of nineteenth-century Europe's golden age of fashion design publications. His 1869 Iconographie Générale et Méthodique du Costume d... [Read More]

The Irish Boho Costume Beautiful set includes chemise and Irish over dress. Reminisce is a mother/daughter owned, small business. We designed these dresses to accommodate various body shapes in 1998. It not only is cinched in the front (as others only were), but has back laces as well. SIZING: S/M = 32" to 36" bust and a 30" to 34" waist L/XL = 36" to 42" bust and a 34" to 40" waist 2XL/3XL = 42" to 48" bust and a 40" to 46" waist Length (overdress) for all sizes: 56" (easy to hem if need... [Read More]

When Kunstwerke und Geräthschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (1852–1863) was published, what purchasers in fact bought was a printed museum. With 216 hand-colored copperplate engravings, the publication gives a comprehensive overview of applied arts in Europe from the 9th to the 16th centuries, spanning furniture, metalwork, jewelry, tapestries, and bookbinding.The book’s lead editor was well placed to select masterpieces from the Middle Ages through to the Renaissance from both ... [Read More]