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Books on Ancient and Medieval Costume & Culture
Ancient Greek, Roman & Byzantine Costume
Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian & Persian Costume
Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images
Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It Someday, when
I grow up I hope to make a book as cool as this nifty little volume of B&W
line drawings that show costumers how to easily and inexpensively replicate
Medieval dress of all classes.
Period Costume for Stage & Screen : Patterns for Women's Dress, Medieval-1500
Jean Hunnisett, Kathryn Turner (Illustrator) Worth every
penny of it's hefty price tag, this book is high on scholarship, illustrations, easy to
understand text and diagrams, and is one of the best, most detailed how-to manuals for
costumers ever written. I had been working as a costumer for almost 20 years when I first
saw this book and still, I'd say lots of it's techniques were a revelation. It shows in
essence, how to reproduce costumes in this period in such a way as to make them indistinguishable from originals.
Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments 1200-1500
Byzantine Costumes Paper Dolls
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England, Revised and Enlarged Edition
Anglo-Saxon Crafts (Revealing History (Paperback))
Ferdinand and Isabella Paper Dolls
Medieval Clothing and Textiles I (Medieval Clothing and Textiles)
Clothes of the Ancient World (Dress Sense)
On Divers Arts: The Foremost Medieval Treatise on Painting, Glassmaking, and Metalwork
A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food: Processing and Consumption
How to Distinguish the Saints in Art by Their Costumes, Symbols and Attributes
Church Vestments : Their Origin and Development
Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons
The Medieval Garden
Woven into the Earth: Textiles from Norse Greenland
Viking Age Headcoverings From Dublin
Medieval Fabrications : Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings (The New Middle Ages)
Tournaments : Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages
Spend the Day in Ancient Rome : Projects and Activities that Bring the Past to Life
A Coloring Book of Ancient Greece
Spend the Day in Ancient Greece : Projects and Activities that Bring the Past to Life
A Biblical Feast, Foods from the Holy Land
The Houses of Roman Italy 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration
Route 66 A.D. : On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists
Fashion: Bring the Past Alive With 30 Great Projects (Hands-On History Series)
The Complete Roman Army
Roman Military Clothing (1) 100Bc-Ad200 (Men-At-Arms 374)
Ancient Roman Gardens
The Philosopher's Kitchen : Recipes from Ancient Greece and Rome for the Modern Cook
Spend the Day in Ancient Greece : Projects and Activities that Bring the Past to Life (Spend The Day Series)
Spend the Day in Ancient Rome : Projects and Activities that Bring the Past to Life (Spend the Day Series)
Constructing Medieval Furniture: Plans and Instructions With Historical Notes
Creating Personas
Traveling Dysshes; Or, Foods for Wars, Peace, and Potlucks
Plucked, Shaved & Braided: Medieval and Renaissance Beauty and Grooming Practices 1000-1600
Ultimate Sticker Book: Ancient Egypt
Ultimate Sticker Book: Greece and Rome
Ultimate Sticker Book: Castle and Knight
TECHNIQUES OF MEDIEVAL ARMOUR REPRODUCTION: THE 14TH CENTURY
Heraldry, Pageantry and Social Display in Medieval England
Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour
Women's Work : The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Gladiators : 100 Bc - Ad 200 (Warrior, 39)
Dress Accessories C.1150-C.1450: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London 3 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London)
Shoes and Pattens
Textiles and Clothing : Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, c.1150-c.1450
Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice
Costume
of Ancient Rome (Costume Reference)
Egyptian
Designs Book and CD-ROM
Medieval Costume and Fashion, Herbert Norris. Still the single best book for English costume 1066-1485. A
long out of print classic, heavily geared towards the needs of Shakespeare productions and
people doing English History plays. Norris' books have long been hunted through
antiquarian booksellers by serious costumers, and only recently have been
reprinted in their entirety. Many images from this book can be seen on The
Cotehardie & Houppelande Homepage online. .
Ancient European Costume and Fashion,
Herbert Norris. Covers clothing in Europe prior to 1066. Also
excellent.
Robes and Honor : The Medieval World of Investiture (The New Middle Ages)
Costumes of the Greeks and Romans
Medieval Furniture: Plans and Instructions for Historical Reproductions
Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting
Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks
Textiles and Clothing : Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, c.1150-c.1450
Italian Renaissance Costumes Paper Dolls (Paper Doll Series)
Chaucer and Costume: The Secular Pilgrims in the General Prologue (Chaucer
Studies, No 26)
Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince : A Study of the Years
1340-1365
Western European Costume 13th to 17th Century; Iris Brooke, William-Alan Landes. Just line drawings and short text, but most useful for a beginning costumer who needs lots of clear pictures of a broad period of clothing. It's a pointless addition for someone who has nearly everything in the way of costume books, but for someone making a library of their first few books it provides lots of good information in an easy to comprehend form for a cheap price.
Handbook of English Mediaeval Costume; C. Willett Cunnington. A classic, with line drawings mainly, but a very good Dover bargain edition with lots of info per dollar.
A History of Costume, Karl Kohler. My all time
favorite bargain, this book has patterns, photos of antique garments, and intelligent
text, all at one of the lowest prices for a costume book on the market. It covers Western
costume from the age of the Bog People to about 1850, with very strong sections on
Renaissance and Late 18th Century dress. The book has B&W versions
of the pictures on Color
plates of original 18th Century costumes from Karl Kohler's Kostumekunde
along with patterns of several of these costumes, plus others in various
eras.
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Byzantine Fashions
The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery
Spend the Day in Ancient Egypt : Projects and Activities That Bring the Past to Life (Spend The Day Series)
The Medieval Wedding Guide
Clothes of the Medieval World
Ancient Egyptian Jewelry
The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith: Fine Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon England: Its Practice and Practitioners
Prehistoric Textiles
Ancient Egyptian Dances
Egyptian Hieroglyphics: How to Read and Write Them
The Mediaeval Tournament
Historic Costume CD-ROM and Book : From Ancient Times to the Renaissance
Cleopatra Paper Doll
Ancient Egyptian Fashions
Eyewitness: Knight
Eyewitness: Medieval Life
European Civil and Military Clothing : From the First to the Eighteenth Century
Clothes Make the Man : Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe (New Middle Ages)
Medieval Costume, Armour, and Weapons
The Art of Making Armour
Medieval Military Costume (Europa Militaria Special, 8)
British Costume from Earliest Times to 1820
Ancient Egyptian Costumes Paper Dolls
Ancient Greek Costumes Paper Dolls
Clothes and Crafts in Roman Times (Clothes and Crafts in History)
Clothes and Crafts in Ancient Greece (Clothes and Crafts in History)
Medieval Fashions Coloring Book
Gothic Costumes Paper Dolls
The Devil's Cloth (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Medieval Costumes Paper Dolls
Medieval Costume in England and France : The 13th, 14th and
15th Centuries
English Costume from the Early Middle Ages Through the
Sixteenth Century
Tournaments : Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages
Dress in the Middle Ages