A comprehensive guide to making period clothes for re-enactment, living history or theatre. From establishing the date of your outfit, defining the wearer and selecting garments, to measurements, patterns, materials, and methods of construction, you can discover how to make braies, shirts and smocks, cotes, kirtles, doublets, hose, surcotes, cotehardies, gowns, overkirtles, cloaks, children's clothing, a variety of head-wear and accessories. AUTHOR: Sarah Thursfield is an experienced cutter and dressmaker with a special interest in medieval dress. She absorbed the basic sewing skills during childhood, later extending this grounding with a City & Guilds Institute course in fashion, where she gained a distinction. Her tailoring commissions include medieval and Tudor outfits for museums, garments for exhibitions, and many outfits for re-enactors. SELLING POINTS: A comprehensive guide for anyone wishing to reproduce historical dress for re-enactment, living history displays, drama or personal use The garments are presented with brief notes on their historical background in three main layers, underwear, main garments and outer garments for men, women and children There is a section on 'how to use the book' with detailed instructions on techniques, planning and materials Superbly illustrated with over 400 line illustrations and 121 patterns Sara Thursfield is an experienced cutter and dressmaker with a special interest in medieval dress ILLUSTRATIONS: 400 b/w line drawings 121 patterns