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Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd: The inventories of the Wardrobe of Robes prepared in July 1600

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory 

Europe: 15th & 16th Centuries

Plates from Racinet's Le Costume Historique 
and "Le Ornament Polychrome"

15th Century dress 15thcent.jpg (83313 bytes) 

racinet15thguards.jpg (60333 bytes) 15th Century Military dress

European Dress around 1500:  1500euro2.jpg (96216 bytes) 15theuro1.jpg (87169 bytes) 1500euro3.jpg (95005 bytes) 1500eurointerior.jpg (85333 bytes) 1500europe.jpg (96118 bytes) 1500flemish.jpg (102714 bytes) 15theuro4.jpg (112098 bytes)

raccover.jpg (45363 bytes) Hardcover: Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes  

raccoverpaper.jpg (49106 bytes) Paperback: Racinet's Full Color Pictorial History of Western Costume  European Civil and Military Clothing : From the First to the Eighteenth Century 

15th16theurowar.jpg (78053 bytes) 16thcentarmor.jpg (116591 bytes) 15th - 16th Century Armor

16th4.jpg (66626 bytes) 16th Century Germany

 16thcenornament.jpg (85978 bytes) renaissancemanuscript.jpg (155013 bytes) renaissancemanuscriptornaments.jpg (73859 bytes) renaissanceornament.jpg (134672 bytes) renaissanceornament2.jpg (111112 bytes) Renaissance Ornament 
The Grammar of Ornament : Illustrated by Examples from Various Styles of Ornament Patterns of Fashion : The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women C1560-1620
 16theuro264.jpg (61585 bytes) 16thcenteurope.jpg (91978 bytes) 16th Century European nobility & Royals
 16th1.jpg (58075 bytes) racinet16thcent6.jpg (98772 bytes) Spanish Ruffs 
Full-Color Picture Sourcebook of Historic Ornament : All 120 Plates from 'L'Ornement Polychrome,' Series 2
16thcentwoman1.jpg (126455 bytes) 16thcentwoman2.jpg (114238 bytes) Details
  16th3.jpg (59454 bytes) 16th2.jpg (65729 bytes)
Historic Ornament : A Pictorial Archive : 900 Fine Examples from Ancient Egypt to 1800, Suitable for Reproduction
 queneliz1.jpg (74040 bytes) Queen Elizabeth I
renaissanceivorycarving.JPG (108709 bytes) Renaissance ornament 
The Grammar of Ornament : All 100 Color Plates from the Folio Edition of the Great Victorian Sourcebook of Historic Design

 16theuro265.jpg (60717 bytes) 16theuro3.jpg (89701 bytes) English & French

  englishinterior.jpg (115002 bytes) englishinteriour.jpg (55127 bytes) 16th Century English Interiors

Complete-Costume History- (The COMPLETE Racinet plates on costume history in print form)

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