Today I received this:
A friend in Czechia told me about it earlier this year, and with her help got into contact with the university who had it published. You can’t buy it, but if you are researching historical clothes you can get it provided you send them postage. I wasn’t sure I would qualify, but clearly I did. There are a lot of pattern diagrams from the 16th- to the 18th century, for men, women, girls, horses(!), liturgical clothes and a few tents. The wool gown I made a few months ago comes from this book, and now I have so many things I want to make.
Like continuing on my late 17th/early 18th century wardrobe. I now have patterns for stays, riding habit and something I very much will look like the kind of loose nightgown you see on a lot of Swedish and Danish portraits from this period.
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| Unknown Swedish woman, late 17th century |
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| Elizabeth Faltz, Sweden, late 17th/early 18th century |
My old pet-en-l’air which is too small, basically has the same fabric as this one, only the pattern is smaller. Doesn’t it just beg to be re-made into it?
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| Christiane Marie Foss, Denmark, 1700-1709 |
I also strongly suspect that the riding habit I want to make will look very much like this one:
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| Hedvig Sofia, Princess of Sweden by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl |
Also, there is the pattern for a riding habit from 1769 which includes the waistcoat. I haven’t seen an old pattern for that before.And, from the same year, patterns for two pair of stays, one which would look a lot like this one made up:
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| Late 18th century stays |
You understand why I’m a bit incoherent of joy?
Also, I found a gown which looks very much like my wool gown on a Swedish painting.
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| Hedvig Sofia, Princess of Sweden, detail from a painting atributed to David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, painted in 1697 |