Original Garments: Photos of 16th Century Clothing
New! Photographs of the Sture Shirt
Photo of a German Headpiece
Mary of Hapsburg's Hungarian Gown, 1520
The Dungiven Jacket:16th c. Irish Menswear
16th and 17th c. CLothing from the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
V&A Costume & Textiles Tour 16th & 17th c. clothing at the V&A
Elizabethan Costume at the Bath Costume Museum
16th C. Clothing at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum at La Couturiere Parisienne
Elizabethan Costume in the Victoria & Albert Museum at L'Age d'Or
Extant costumes at elizabethan-portraits.com
Clothing from The Mary Rose

Modern Reproductions
New! Reproductions of clothing in Renaissance portraits
New! The Warwick Shirt Project: Recreation of an Embroidered Elizabethan Shirt
New! Horse and Rabbit's Garb Diaries
Early German Renaissance Costume 1470-1520 by Myra.
Jessamyn's Dress Diaries
An Elizabethan Corset & Smock
Michaela de Bruce's costumes
Kleidung der Renaissance:Reconstructions of 16th c. German gowns
Ninya Mikhaila's Reproduction Elizabethan Dress A huge gallery of highest-quality reproductions
Mistress Kate's Dress Diary
To Dress a Queen: A Dress Diary by Karen Bergquist
Sempstress's Dress Diaries and Costume Gallery
Florentine Dress Diaries by Jen Thompson
Sarah Lorainne's Costume Closet and Dress Diaries
Jen Thompson's Costume Gallery
Featured Attyre The best of Elizabethan Costume on the web, updated weekly!
Karen Bergquist's Elizabethan Costume Gallery
Gilded Raiment: an Italian Dress Diary by Jennifer White
Tudor Gown Project by Christina Claridge
16th century Costumes of the Basingstoke Early Dance group
Guy's Nobleman's Outfit
Recreations of Flemish Workingwomen's Dress
Seamstrix's Elizabethan Costume Gallery
Photos of the Tudor Group Re-enactors
Penthisilea, Queene of the Amazones: a 16th century Masque Costume
Briana's Picture Page Photographs of Briana's Elizabethan and Tudor Creations
Cat's Middle Class Elizabethan Gown
Project Diary--an Elizabethan Gown by Clare Wodehourse
Melanie Schuessler's Elizabethan Costumes Photos of several exquisite gowns
Anya's Documentation Site Beautiful Photographs of Elizabethan Costume
Lady Drea's Wardrobe Unlock'd Photos of Elizabethan clothing
Costume Flicks: Movies showing Tudor/Elizabethan Dress
Photos of Tudor and Elizabethan Costumes. Put up by Lynn McMasters
Costumes for the Stage Production Elizabeth the Queen
A Modern Portrait in the Elizabethan Style (done by The Quayside Gallery)

Custom Corset Pattern Generator - create an Elizabethan corset pattern
The Smock Pattern Generator. Drafts a custom-fitted Elizabethan smock
New! A 16th c. German Pattern Book: The Leonfeldner Schnittbuch, 1590
Parsimonious Patterns: Gowns and the Patterns that made them by Sempstress
Basic Pattern Drafting by Tammie Dupuis
Making an Elizabethan Bodice Pattern and Doublet by Sempstress
How to Remove Darts from a Pattern by Sarah Goodman
The Elizabethan Lady's Wardrobe pattern review
Dawn's Costume Guide - Patterns for Elizabethan costume & accessories
Patterns for Elizabethan Hats and Headwear by Lynn McMasters
Quick & Dirty Trunkhose Pattern
Commercial Renaissance/Elizabethan Costume Patterns A thorough listing and review of currently available renaissance patterns.
Gored (A-line) Kirtle Pattern
Drafting a custom-fitted Elizabethan Bodice Pattern
Tudor Bases Pattern (A Tudor Man's pleated skirt)
Dawn's Pattern for Fitted Breeches
Simplicity's Elizabethan Gown Pattern
Patterns of Time's Online Pattern store
Resizing Historic Patterns

New! Creating a puff & slash German sleeve
New! How to Tie Bows
New! Making a Kirtle: An excellent step-by-step guide for making a 16th c. kirtle using authentic construction techniques.
Fashion Figures to Trace for designing costumes
A Demo on Cartridge Pleating by Tammie Dupuis
Renaissance Tailoring Made Easy: Period Sewing Techniques, by Tammie Dupuis
Everything you wanted to know about boning with cord by Jen Thompson
How to Make a Shoulder Roll by Saragrace
Renaissance Pleating Techniques
A Short Tutorial on Cartridge Pleating
The Zen of Spiral Lacing How to lace your clothing in a period manner
How to make Basic Trunk Hosen by Anya
Constructing a 16th Century Flemish Outfit
Making a Gathered Kirtle

New! The Image of Ireland pictures of 16th c. Irish dress
I Segreti per Colori:Renaissance Dye Recipes
Cennini's Libro dell'Arte Recipes for glue, starch, and information on pigments & dyeing
The Leonfeldner Schnittbuch, a German tailor's pattern book of 1590
Five 16th & 17th century Tailors Books webbed by Tammie Dupuis
New Year's Gifts given to Queen Elizabeth
Holinshed's Chronicles: "Of our apparall and attire"
The Milanese Tailor's Handbook pictures and patterns for 1570s Italian dress
Habitus praecipuorum populorum Weigel's 1577 book on the dress of all people
Elizabethan Sumptuary Laws
Les Singvliers et Novveaux Povrtraicts: A 16th century Lace-making Pattern Book
Stubbes on Fashion: Excerpts from the 1583 Anatomie of Abuses
Mary Tudor's Wardrobe Accounts--Searcheable
Les Femmes Musiciens 16th c. Female Musicians
Books on Elizabethan Costume: An annotated list of sources
Braun & Schneider's HISTORY OF COSTUME (a 19th Century book--not completely accurate)

New! A Short History of the Monmouth Knitted Cap
New! How to Wear a Coif by Elizabeth Mellin
New! To Make a Tall Hat
New! Knitted Caps
New! Two Elizabethan Hairstyles
Straw Hats in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art
Making Elizabethan Hats by Sempstress
How to Make a Gable Hood
Beautiful Netting-How to make it A wonderful tutorial on making basic & fancy netting designs for cauls, snoods, etc.
Renaissance Hair Taping
Make a Soft Cap
Making a Flat Cap
French Hoods: History, Pictures & Construction
How to make a French Hood
Photos of Modern Recreations of Period Hats
16th Century Snoods, Hairnets & Cauls History, Pictures & Construction
The Tudor Gable Hood: History, Pictures and Construction
Elizabethan Coifs - photographs, information, coify links, and instructions on making your own
How to Make a Tudor Flat Cap - Pattern & Instructions

New! Is Cotton Really Period?
New!Italian Names of Renaissance Fabrics
Cotton and the Cotton Trade in the Middle Ages & Renaissance
The Dye WoorkesMedieval & Renaissance dyeing recipes & manuscripts.
Medieval Leather Dyeing
I Segreti per Colori:Renaissance Dye Recipes
To Make a Beautiful Color: Trade Dyes in the 16th Century
The Use of Lower-grade Silks in the Renaissance by Jen Thompson
16th Century Color Names And their DMC equivalents
Color in Lowerclass Elizabethan Clothing
Colors Used in Elizabethan Dress
"What Fabric Should I Use?" finding the right fabric for your costume
Fabric Yardages in late 16th C. women's clothing
Listing of Fabric Yardages for all Elizabethan Garments

New! Gloves and Muffs and Masks, Oh My!
New! 16th Century Muffs
New! A Payre of 16th Century Gloves worn by Sir Francis Drake
New! Elizabethan Button Page Pictures of Originals, where to find Reproduction buttons, and how to make your own
New! Elizabethan Gloves
New! The Parasol in the 16th & 17th Centuries
Hose in the 16th Century by Melanie Schuessler
Renaissance Fans
Venetian Chopines
Making a Fan by Sempstress
Making an Elizabethan Ruff by Tammie Dupuis
How to Starch an Elizabethan Ruff
All About Elizabethan Ruffs
An Embroidered blackwork partlet
Constructing Elizabethan Ruffs
Ruffmaking 101 by Anya
A Ruff Calculation Calculate the fabric needed for your ruff.
The Ruff Page: How to make an Elizabethan Neck Ruff by Dawn Dupperault
Jewelry in Elizabethan England
The Cheapside Hoard: See what the merchants and well-to-do women wore in Elizabethan England
Making an Elizabethan Partlet by Tammie Dupuis
Making an Elizabethan Partlet
Elizabethan Accessories: Hats, Shoes, Belts & More
Tying Elizabethan Bows
How to Make a Pouch, by Dawn Dupperault
Patterns for 16th century Tudor Shoes
Making a Pair of Gloves by Franchesca Havas

New! Images of Extant 16th Century Embroidery
New! Pleatwork Embroidery the definitive resource on period smocking and pleatwork
New! Extant 16th Century Embroidery: A huge & comprehensive collection of images of 16th c. embroidered items.
New! In Prayse of the Needle: Reproduction Embroidery (several 16th c. Items)
Elizabethan Embroidery Embroideries in the V&A Collection. (PDF, 5.9Mb)
Quilting in the Sixteenth Century
Mary Stuart's Embroideries
Fabric Printing In The Renaissance
16th Century Beadwork From the Medieval Beadwork Page
Basics of Elizabethan Costume Detailing
Elizabethan Applique: Late 16th Century "Slips"

Lace
Arrienne's fabulous Needlelace Site Instructions for and examples of needlelace
The Lace Trade in 16th c. Bohemia
Reproduction Reticella Lace
Making Bobbin Lace
Needlelace History & Technique
Les Singvliers Et Novveaux Povrtraicts: A 16th century Lace-making Pattern Book
Choosing Lace for 16th Century Clothing
A Brief History of Lace in the 1500's

Blackwork
All About Blackwork An article by Michelle Palmer
Elizabethan Embroidery & Blackwork Resources
Bronwen's Blackwork Library Hundreds of blackwork patterns from Italian, English & German sources
How to do Holbein/Double Running Stitch A Beginning Blackwork Tutorial
A Blackwork Pattern for Jane Seymour's Cuff
Blackwork GalleryA Gallery of 16th c. Paintings showing blackwork embroidery
Blackwork Embroidery Archive

New!Extreme Costuming: Articles, Gallery & More by Laura Mellin
New!The Tudor Costume Page: Recreating Costumes for Kentwell
New! Costumes.org 16th c. Links
The Renaissance Tailor Recreating 16th and 17th century clothing
A beautiful site set up by Tammie L. Dupuis, with how-tos on making several Elizabethan garments, 16th century Tailor's pattern books, and much 16th century costume research.
Historic Costumes by Saragrace
A number of lovely German & Flemish outfits and articles on making them
La Mode Historique: Research, Costuming and Stories from the Dark Side
Sarah Goodman's dress diaries, costume articles and other Elizabethan costume resources.
Elizabethan Costumes for Manly Men
The Auld Garb Monger's instructional site for make-it-yourself Elizabethan menswear.
A Festive Attyre: Renaissance & Elizabethan Costuming
Jen Thompson's wonderful collection of Elizabethan Costume research, resources and photos.
Sempstress.org--Elizabethan Costuming
Missa's useful collection of articles on patterning and dressmaking, a number of dress diaries, and useful tools (including Dial-a-Dress!)
Costumes by Lynn McMasters
Photos of many beautiful Elizabethan Gowns, articles on 16th c. Decoration, hat patterns, and more.
Seamstrix--Period Costumes for a Modern World
Karen Bergquist's Gallery of Elizabethan Costumes and dress diaries
The Frugal Frau: Becky's new page of Elizabethan Costume portraits, dress diaries & links.
Dawn's Costume Guide
Dawn's site has articles on how to make everything from Bodices to doublets, a review of patterns, and lots of great info for do-it-yourself Elizabethan costumers.
The Elizabethan Practical Companion
Karen Larsdatter's website of 16th century inventories and blackwork/embroidery resources
Realm of Venus
Bella Lucia's vast and inspirational site on 16th c. Venetian clothing: portraits and paintings, articles on Venetian clothing, and a gallery of gowns.
Anya's Documentation Site
Anya's site of gown photos, articles on making Elizabethan costume, and more
My Lady's Wardrobe
Bess Chilver's site on her wardrobe, reenactments and other Elizabethan costume projects
Research, patterns & photos of Elizabethan Costume
Constance Fairfax's Commonplace Book

New! Ottoman Women's Clothing
New! Overview of Persian Clothing in the 16th Century by Roxane Farabi
New! Russian costume in the 16th & 17th c.
New! Paintings of Romani/Gypsies in Period - Karen Larsdatter
New! Descriptions and Depictions of Historical Scottish Clothing
New! Mary of Hapsburg's Hungarian Gown, 1520
New! Venetian Dress and Accessories of the mid to late 16th century
Italian Working Class Dress
Scandinavian dress in 16th century books
New! 16th Century Persian Women's Dress
New! The Polish Costume Resource Page
New! The Frazzeled Frau Huge archive of German Dress pics
16th Century Clothing in Venice
German 16th C. Women's Costume The Dos and Dont's of correct German womens' dress
Woodcuts of Landesknecht Dress
Italian Dress of the late Renaissance (1470-1540) Includes instructions for drafting an early 16th c. Italian bodice
15th and 16th century Gypsy Costume
Making the Irish Leine
Le Poulet Gauche:French Elizabethan Costume
The Landesknecht Costume Site: German Tudor costume
What the Irish Wore: Reconstructing History's site on Irish 16th Century Costume
Celtic Costume of the 16th Century (Scottish & Irish)

Books on Elizabethan Costume: An annotated list of sources
Mail-Order Costuming Supplies: Boning, linen, silk, patterns, accessories & more.
Elizabethan Merchants: If you don't want to sew it, buy it! A list of retail sources for 16th century costumes and costume accessories.

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