Tudor Times Dress. The following article is written by bess chilver costumer and tudor dress expert. There is also general advice on choosing materials construction methods and an insight into the tudor tailor s sewing kit.
Tudor women wore their hair long but it was generally hidden under a headpiece of some type. Reviews this is the perfect book the research is first class it describes the fabrics threads and colours that were used in tudor times and also has a very useful pattern section in the second half of the book. How to make a tudor kirtle and a gown.
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Sleeves could be worn with different gowns but in this example it seems the match the embroidery of the kirtle. How to make a tudor kirtle and a gown. From early tudor fashion to late sumptuary laws controlled the clothing tudor men and women could wear. These fore sleeves were separate stand alone pieces of the outfit.