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The online tips on the website for this book help with scaling up patterns, but the paradigm shift away from shortcuts to real, actual clothing is great. Though this book may be a challenge to beginning costumers or people just looking for a "wench bodice" pattern, Tudor Tailor instead shifts the focus to actual clothing worn by actual people, and tailored for actual movement and comfort, without compromising period sources. Since there are so many books and sources out there for theatrical costuming, I can proudly clutch Tudor Tailor to my chest and claim it for my own. I just cannot say enough good things about the Tudor Tailor. It's a book I often refer to for its easy layout, large images, clear diagrams, and real-life fitting tips.
If you do not plan to use the book in this way, it is a excellent look into a bygone era of fashion & how thing were done.I enjoyed the reading of this book with the details on how thing were made & how to recreate each item. This wonderful book has given much valid information with my creating an accurate historical 16th garment for myself.
I am currently creating the henrician gown, and though I didn't tackle creating my own patterns, I purchased the ones on their website.It is a great reasource. I love this book. It gives really detailed instructions an colour pictures.
How do you wear them. This is more of a "how-to" book -- what are all those layers. How do all these layers fit together. The Tudor Tailor is an outstanding resource for the Tudor *and* Elizabethan Costumer -- as well as the textile historian.This book has a different look and feel than Patterns of Fashion 3 by Janet Arnold. What kind of people wore what sort of garment.And more than that, this book has patterns and construction "directions." These directions aren't as detailed as you might find in a commercial pattern, but are still easy to follow.All in all -- I highly recommend this book. The patterns are drafted from Extant Garments and there are loads of (unfortunately) B&W pictures of period paintings and extant garments. Ms Arnold's book is solely based around extant garments. (PoF4 has lots of color pictures, BTW).Another difference between this book and PoF3 is while PoF3 covers only later Elizabethan through James I, that this book covers both Henrician and Elizabethan garments.This book is chock full of color pictures -- including pictures of constructed garments being worn by real people.
the costumes are period authentic and work well for the reenactment society she belongs to this book was for my daughter for christmas she had been going to the public library to use theirs and since it was a reference book couldn't check it out so this will save her lots of time.
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