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
Bonus CD-ROM includes all of the scaled patterns in the book as both EPS and SVG vector files, as well as high-resolution, 300-dpi JPEG files and 150-dpi PNG files. - See more at: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486475964.html#sthash.sXUTQd3I.dpuf

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