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A Maryland Sampling : Girlhood Embroidery, 1738-1860
Gloria Seaman Allen
Hardcover - $110.95
This is an extraordinary assemblage of Maryland samplers and pictorial embroideries that will appeal to scholars, collectors, antiques dealers, and modern day embroiderers, written by an accomplished textile historian. Students of womens history and ...
Buttonhooks and Shoehorns
Sue Brandon
Paperback - $19.95
The everyday need for a buttonhook began in the early nineteenth century when it was used to fasten leather button boots. However, it was in the 1880s that saw the development of a wide range of buttonhooks in varying sizes, shapes and materials, fol ...
A Pictorial History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century : With Over 1900 Costumes, Including 1000 in Full Color
Wolfgang Bruhn
Paperback - $40.95
Invaluable pictorial history takes readers on a grand tour of the world, starting in ancient Egypt and culminating in Paris in the late 19th century. More than 1,900 items of clothing are shown in beautiful, accurately rendered illustrations -- from ...
English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century : A Comprehensive Guide with 1,117 Illustrations
C. Willett Cunnington
Paperback - $44.95
Remarkably thorough illustrated overview based on rare period photographs, periodicals, other contemporary sources. Description and information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, carriage costumes, evening dresses, bridal go ...
Women's Costume of the Ancient World : 700 Full-Color Illustrations
Paul Louis de Giafferri
Paperback - $24.95
One of the most extensive pictorial collections of its kind
These colorful illustrations of what fashionable women were wearing more than two millennia ago offer authentic glimpses of the cultures of antiquity. Organized according to region--Egyp ...
Girl Scout Collectors' Guide : A History of Uniforms, Insignia, Publications, and Memorabilia
Mary Degenhardt
Hardcover - $133.95
This new, expanded edition, with hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and tables, is indisputably the go-to source for information on all Girl Scout uniforms, insignia, awards, and handbooks, as well as dolls, postcards, posters, calendars, and mo ...
Classical Tradition in Anatolian Carpets
Walter B. Denny
Paperback - $47.95
-- Includes some of the oldest surviving examples of Turkish carpets
-- All the carpets are reproduced in full-page color and some of the textiles are reproduced for the first time
-- Accessible text combines the latest research with new thinki ...
A Practical Guide to Costume Mounting
Lara Flecker
Hardcover - $140.95
The effective preparation of garments for display is essential for exhibitions of contemporary and historical dress. Costumes not only need to be visually appealing but also fully supported and historically accurate. This book provides a comprehensiv ...
Vintage Fabrics : Identification & Value Guide
Judith Scoggin Gridley
Paperback - $30.95
Vintage Fabrics is an identification and pictorial guide to common vintage fabrics of all fibers from 1880 to 1959, with emphasis on history and origins of fabrics, construction, and how fabrics were used for home and fashion. Including vintage adver ...