Some upcoming books
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sca_garb about some upcoming books on clothing and textiles.Personally, I'm most excited about Clothes of the Common People 1580-1660.
You can see some preview pages from Medieval Garments Reconstructed: Norse Clothing Patterns at Oxbow Books.
Another book (planned for April 2011) that I am looking forward to a lot is Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book 1, which includes a detailed analysis of the Laton jacket (the late 16th/early 17th century embroidered jacket reproduced by the Plimoth Plantation). It is supposed to be a new series, so I'm crossing my fingers for some future 16th century clothing books from the V&A.
ETA: Some more books for those with deep pockets or interlibrary loan.
Any other upcoming clothing/textile/embroidery books you guys are looking forward to?
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Date: 2010-11-08 04:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-11-09 12:10 am (UTC)I do, however, have Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns already preordered from Amazon.
I've not heard of any new embroidery books on the horizon. *pout*
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Date: 2010-11-09 12:53 am (UTC)(I wish I could find a TOC for Seventeenth Century Women's Dress--I want to know what else is in there. I had a chance to look at galleys for the Laton jacket section and passed it up to look at embroidery instead, but I kind of wish I'd at least glanced at them now that I know the pub date is so far out.)
The Royal School of Needlework has a blackwork book out. TBH, I don't think it's very useful from a historical perspective, though. They really like their modern approaches to blackwork.
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Date: 2010-11-09 01:36 am (UTC)I wasn't that interested in the ToC -- it's got the Layton Jacket in it. That was enough for me!
I've seen several of the RSN books -- but they don't interest me that much. They don't seem to be historical in focus. They seem to like their modern approaches.
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Date: 2010-11-09 04:16 am (UTC)Me, too! But I want moar informationz to tide me over until publication.
RSN has an amazing amount of knowledge, including about traditional and historical techniques--I'd happily take classes from them if I could--but the books of theirs that I've seen are pretty heavily weighted towards the modern and experimental.
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Date: 2010-11-09 04:37 am (UTC)And it's not that modern is *bad* -- they just have such an awesome body of knowledge, it seems like a waste to not address that side of things.
IIRC, Duchess Lethrenn went to London to take some of their metal thread classes.
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Date: 2010-11-09 05:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
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