A Brief History of the Tudor Age

Trippingly on the Tongue

Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd:

Costumes and Scripts in the Elizabethan Theatres

Fooles and Fricassees : Food in Shakespeare's England

Tudor Costume and Fashion Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory 

Vecellio's Renaissance Costume Book : All 500 Woodcut Illustrations from the Famous Sixteenth-Century Compendium of World Costume

Elizabethan Costumes Paper Dolls

Tudor and Elizabethan Fashions

Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance : All 154 Plates from the 'Trachtenbuch' The Reduced Shakespeare Company - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England : From 1485-1649

European Civil and Military Clothing : From the First to the Eighteenth Century 

Elizabeth R Queen Elizabeth I Paper Doll

A Short History of Costume & Armour : Two Volumes Bound as One

Barred Combat Helmet

 

European Costume and Fashion 1490-1790

 

Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing

The Prince and the Pauper De Pratica Seu Arte Tripudii = on the Practice or Art of Dancing

Anne of the Thousand Days

  The English Housewife

Swashbuckling : A Step-By-Step Guide to the Art of Stage Combat and Theatrical Swordplay

Fight Direction for Stage and Screen

Bridal Hoop

 Amazon.com: Apparel: Four Hoop Petticoat

The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe

Tudor Tailor reconstructing sixteenth- century dress Books Ninya Mikhaila

 Early Dance Part I : From the Greeks to the Renaissance Elizabeth
Italian Renaissance Costumes Paper Dolls (Paper Doll Series)
Mary, Queen of Scots

Video: Il Ballarino : The Art of Renaissance Dance

Orchesography (16th Century Dance Manual) Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques El Cid Rapier Silver Swashbuckler Sword Rapier Frog Black Leather Sheath Holster

Courtly Dance of the Renaissance : A New Translation and Edition of the Nobilta Di Dame

Renaissance Dances: For Dancers Young and Old with CD (Audio)

 

• Renaissance [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]

• Yahoo! Groups : HistoricCostuming_Renaissance

• Sumptuary Laws in Tudor England

• Oonaghs Own Page on Renaissance Dress Replication

• Life in Elizabethan England 36: Fashionable Vocabulary - Clothing and Fabrics

• Costumes anciens et modernes By Cesare Vecellio- Google Book Search
• CostumeTalk.com - Home bringing costume and textile scholars together for lectures on the construction, history, and philosophy of costume and dress of the Medieval and Renaissance periods
• Vie militaire et religieuse au moyen âge et à l'époque de la renaissance By P. L. Jacob 1873 ... - Google Book Search
• Textiles and Costume Sites - Tudor Links: Mapping Tudor England On The Web
• A Manual of Costume as Illustrated by Monumental Brasses By Herbert Druitt 1906.. - Google Book Search

• Yahoo! Groups : GermanRenCostume

• Tempus Peregrinator's Weeb Page
  • (The Real Landsknechte Homepage)
  • Tempus' Sewing & Garb Accessories Site
• Yahoo! Groups : Elizabethan-Costume
• Elizabethan Costume at the Costume Museum of Bath
• Artículos sobre Vestimenta recreación de la ropa del Medioevo y el Renacimiento
• LACMA Collections Online: Costumes of the Peoples of the World 1581

• 16th Century Royal Costume From Herbert Norris' Costume and Fashion Volume III, book 2

• Medieval, Renaissance, Tudor & Elizabethan Dress Page
• Oonaghs Own Page on Renaissance Dress Replication

• Yahoo! Clubs kariselizabethancostuming

• 1500-1550 in fashion Information from Answers.com
• 1550-1600 in fashion Information from Answers.com

• Tempus Peregrinator's Weeb Page

• YouTube - Shakespeare's London Elizabethan Fashion

• DragonBear: Strutt's Dress & Habits of England 13th-17th Centuries

• Costume History: Renaissance

• Eric Praetzel - Historical Costume Archives

• Musee de la Louvre: Paintings & sculpture of the Late Middle Ages and Italian Renaissance showing Italian costume.  One with lots of Venetian Jewish dress of the 1520s.

• Sempstress.org -- Elizabethan Costuming

• Historische Kostüme: Renaissance

  • Historische Kostüme: Renaissance

• Arts and Sciences Links: Medieval & Renaissance Clothing

• Tudor England: Images: Portraits of the Tudor monarchs and their contemporaries
• Richard III Society - American Branch
  • Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York:
• Renaissance, The Elizabethan World
• Contemporary Text: Montaigne's Essays CHAPTER XXXV: OF THE USE OF APPARELL.
• the web page of the SCA-Garb electronic mailing list! When Do You Want To Wear Today?
• Renaissance Central - The Hub of the Renaissance World
• Elizabethan Costume
• Modegeschichte der Renaissance
• A Festive Attyre: Renaissance and Elizabethan Costuming
• Extant Elizabethan Costumes

• Historische Kostüme: Renaissance 

  • Historische Kostüme: Renaissance

• TudorHistory.org

• Renaissance

• Florentine Dress Images found in Renaissance art from the years 1500 to 1525

• V&A Costume and Textiles Tour
  • Women's Smocks at the V&A
  • 16th C. Jewelry at the V&A
  • Margaret Laton's Jacket

• Lynn McMasters' Home Page

• Inside Trish's Head There's Elizabethan Costuming, Roleplaying, Dragons, Wedding Pictures, Sewing, Big Dresses and more!

• Tudor dress: portfolio of images

• Tudor Costumes

• Tudor dress: portfolio of images

• Recommended 16th & 17th Century Costume Books

• 16th Century - Fashion : Virtual Museum - Millennium Exhibition
• NMWA | Private Collection | Portrait of a Noblewoman c.1580

• Renaissance Costume Books At Amazon

• Oxpix

  • Lady in Persian Costume

• Tudor dress: portfolio of images

• Renaissance Costume & Jewelry from Boehm's Die Mode Menschen und Moden im Sechzehnten Jahrhundert (Modes and Manners of the 16th Century)

• Medieval/Renaissance Clothing and Costume Links

• the town of Virtual Renaissance

• Sempstress.org -- Elizabethan Costuming

• Yahoo! Groups : TudorFashions

• Ye Olde Transporter (to the virtual Renaissance)

• Renaissance Fashions

• Tudor dress: portfolio of images
• Welcome to Thrednedle Strete Clothiers: Resource Info on Historic 16th Century Dress & 16th Century Style Costumes for Sale
• Contemporary Text: Stubbes on Fashion: Excerpts from the 1583 Anatomie of Abuses

• Another Elizabethan Costume Site

• ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 4 Renaissance Art

• Great list of SCA Clothing and Costume Links

• SCA Clothing and Costume Links

• Elizabethan Fashions

• Italian Renaissance Costume Links

• Later Renaissance Clothing

• Contemporary Text: William Harrison (1534-1593): Description Of Elizabethan England, 1577 Chapter VII: Of our Apparrel and Attire

• Images from Arbeau (1589)

• Images from Caroso's Il Ballarino (1581)

• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

• History of Costumes Image Index pages 6-9

• THE HANDBOOK OF GERMAN DRESS- 1500s Section

• Elizabethan Costume: A Brief Historic Study

• The Tudor Times

• Tudor & Elizabethan Portraits

• Tudor Costume

• Tudor dress: portfolio of images

• The Mary Rose - Clothing - Page 1 of 2

• Recreations of Flemish Dress

• Elizabethan Costumes

• Cream Elizabethan Court Costume

• Man's Elizabethan Court Costume

• Lady's Elizabethan Court Costume

• French Fashions of the Reign of Francois II

• French Fashions of the Reign of Charles IX

• French Fashions of the Reign of Henri III

• French Fashions of the Reign of Henri IV

• Costume Details from Lorenzo Lotto; Early 16th Century Italian Costume (1490-1530): A Portfolio of Images

• Women's Dress

  • Courtesans in Venice: Clothing

  • Renaissance Women's Headdress

  • Renaissance Women in Art

  • My Gracious Silence -- Fashion Plate Thumbnails

  • 16th Century German female garb

  • Review of The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe

  • Guild Pages - Women's Costume Guidelines 1580-1620 Pirate/Peasant
  • Working Women's Dress in 16th Century Flanders
  • Renaissance Countrywomen

  • Scottish Women's Clothing

  • Im Frauwenzimmer Wirt vermeldt von allerly schönen Kleidungen 16th Century

  • Les Femmes Musiciennes illustrations by Tobias Stimmer printed in the mid to late 1500's

  •  Women's Fashion Plate Thumbnails

  • The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I

• Men's Dress

  • Renaissance Patterns for Men

  • Scottish Men's Clothing

  • (The Real Landsknechte Homepage)

  • Embroidered man's Hat c.1600

  • A Brief History of That Most Delectable of Subjects: Codpieces

  • A Brief History of That Most Delectable of Subjects: Codpieces

  • Guild Pages - Men's Costume Guidelines 1580-1620 Pirate/Peasant

  • Meyr's Medieval Web: Codpiece (Humor not history)

• Children's Dress

  • Historical Boys Clothing (then navigate within site to page on this topic/era)

  • Child's Elizabethan Closed Bodice Gown

  • Children in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art
  • Dressing Cecily An Interactive Elizabethan Wardrobe

• Period Movement, Combat and Dance

  • Renaissance Dance

  • Books & Videos on Period Dance and Fighting:

  • Contemporary texts Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920

  • Images from Arbeau (1589)

  • Images from Caroso's Il Ballarino (1581)

  • Fabrito Caroso's Il Ballarino (1581)

  • Del's Dance Book

  • English Country Dancing
  • An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
    • Dance Instruction Manuals: Video Directory

  • Renaissance Dance Cheat Sheets

  • Renaissance Dance

  • Medieval and Renaissance Dances for Recorders, Dancers, and Hand Drums
  • De Pratica Seu Arte Tripudii = on the Practice or Art of Dancing

Sallets, Humbles & Shrewsbery Cakes: A Collection of Elizabethan Recipes Adapted for the Modern Kitchen

The Tudor Housewife

Actors on Guard : A Practical Guide for the Use of the Rapier and Dagger for Stage and Screen

Black Adder - The Complete Collector's Set

The Book of the Courtier Daily Life in Elizabethan England

The Taming of the Shrew

• Fashion Accessories

  • Stefan's Florilegium: Elizabethian clothing ruffs. Making them.

  • Aprons in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art
  • How to Starch an Elizabethan Ruff

  • How to make An Elizabethan Feather Fan

  • The Iron Hook "Pirate" hooks & more
  • Wooden goblets, wooden chalices and wood cups

  • Wigs, Hair & Hats

    • Embroidered man's Hat c.1600

    • How to Make a Renaissance Hat

    • Hairstyles of the Elizabethan Period

    • Renaissance Women's Headdress

    • Period Hats

    • 16th and 17th century Coifs
    • eBay Store - Lady MacSnood: Snoods, Bun Covers, and Mens
    • Straw Hats in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art

    • Fabric Covered Buckram Period Hat Patterns by Lynn McMasters

    • Tudor Gable Headdress: A Portfolio of Images
    • Tudor Gable: Illustrated Step by Step Instructions
    • Renaissance Female Headdress Images
    • Renaissance Male Headdress Images

    • Italian Renaissance Headdress

    • Men's and Women's Arched Brim Hats

    • THE HANDBOOK OF GERMAN DRESS- Hair & Headdress 1500s-1700s

    • Tudor Gable: Illustrated Step by Step Instructions

    • Making a Monmouth Cap
    • La Paloma Hats (Renaissance Reenactor Hats)
    • Monmouth cap, 16th century :: Gathering the Jewels
    • How to make a Coif
    • Coifs at the V&A Museum

    • Tudor Gable Headdress: A Portfolio of Images

    • Embroidered man's Hat c.1600

    • Elizabethan Hats

    • Tudor Flat Cap

    • Constructing a Caul/Muffin Cap

    • The FLAT CAP

    • French Hoods

    • Lady MacSnood-Maker of Fine Hand Made Hair Snoods

    • 16th and 17th century Coifs

    • Tudor Flat Cap

  • Underwear

    • A Brief History of That Most Delectable of Subjects: Codpieces

    • History of Hand Knit Hose

    • The Zen of Spiral Lacing
    • The Farthingale Page
    • Corset Pattern
    • Boning with Hemp Cord
    • How to make an Elizabethan Corset
    • How to make an easy Italian chemise
    • Hose in the 16th Century
    • Elizabethan Corsets
    • Early Corsetry
    • Faire Pair Tights
    • Corset Tidbits
    • Joined Woolen Hose from Breugel
    • Custom Corset Pattern Generator
    • Elizabethan Smock Pattern Generator
    • Elizabethan stockings  
    • Discovering the Effigy Corset  
    • A Brief History of Hosiery  
    • DawnPages -- Bum Roll  
    • Cloth Hose Pattern

  • Jewelry

    • Renaissance 1400-1600 Jewelry Research

    • A History of Jewelry 1100-1870

    • Elizabethan Jewelry

    • Yahoo! Groups : sca-beadmaker

    • Cariadoc's Miscellany: A Jeweler's Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Sources

    • L'Elizabeth R. Renaissance Portraiture ~ Online Marketplace
    • Tudor Jewelry, Medieval Jewelry, accurate replica jewels.
    • Combs from Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance
    • Museum of London's "Cheapside Hoard" Jewellery Collection:Amethyst and Peridot Pendant Crosses,Amethyst Pearl and Gold Bracelets - Earrings - Pendants.
    • Monstrous Animals at Ladymaid Jewels
    • Welcome to Maggs Creation: swire-wrapped pendants, beaded jewelry and Elizabethan costume accessories
    • MGM 2003 - Dark Deeds And Elizabethan Scandal At The NMM - 24 Hour Museum
    • Elizabeth I's locket ring
    • Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Ring that could hold clue to Elizabeth I
    • Royal Insight > March 2003 > Focus > Remembering the Virgin Queen
    • Elizabethan Drama
    • TIMEeurope.com | The First Elizabeth - Locket Ring

    • Drachenstein Treasures Medieval & Renaissance Reproduction Jewelry

    • Rose N Crown reproductions

    • Musee de la Louvre: Jewelry

    • http://www.parrishrelics.com Medieval/Renaissance inspired Jewelry

    • Renaissance Jewelry

    • Illusion Jewels Vintage Jewelry & Collectible Costume Jewelry, also has original jewelry designs by Dorothea, including Renaissance jewelry.

  • Pockets, Bags etc

    • Elizabeth's Purse
    • Pouches and Purses in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art
    • TIMEeurope.com | The First Elizabeth- Purse
    • Frog Purse, 1600

  • Shoes & Gloves

    • History of Hand Knit Hose

    • Footwear of the Middle Ages - Shoe Design List/Tudor Era (c1450-1550)

    • Tudor Shoes
    • Sarah Juniper - Tudor Shoes

    • Nativearth Medieval & Renaissance Shoes

    • Glove Gallery
    • How to make Gloves

    • The Worshipful Company of Glovers of London

    • Evidence of Gloves from the 12th to the 16th Centuries
    • Elizabethan Mitten

    • Fabric Printing In The Renaissance and Shoe Tidbits

    • Dreamshoes - Celtic &Renaissance Footwear & Leather Goods

    • Nativearth Medieval & Renaissance Shoes

    • elizabeth bernhardt's Venetian Chopine Page

    • Dreamshoes - Celtic &Renais