Embroiderers' Guild Bookshop - Costume & Fashion

1950s Fashion Print NEW!
Marnie Fogg
Pub. Batsford
Price £20.00 hardback
Over 200 stunning 1950's prints, revealing a decade of modernity, innovation and whimsy. Exclusive original artwork and finished prints from leading designers including Lucienne Day, Robert Stewart and Sylvia Chambers. A wonderful creative resource of original print design inspired by the painterly marks of Abstract Expressionism, rock 'n' roll iconography and spikey kinetic art.

1960s Fashion Print NEW!
Marnie Fogg
Pub. Batsford
Price £16.99 paperback
From Biba to Warhol, flower power to psychedelia - this essential sourcebook has over 200 original prints from the 1960's to inspire designers and illustrators in all creative fields. With exclusive illustrations and original artwork from designers as well as finished prints, 1960's Fashion Print will inspire for years to come.

Chronicle of Western Costume
Peacock, J
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £12.95 hardback

Corsets NEW!
Jill Salen
Pub. Batsford
Price £20.00 paperback
Available now! A fascinating book that shows the historical patterns and techniques of corset making between 1750 and 1917.

Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers NEW!
New Edition updated by Cat Glover
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £9.95 paperback
This indespensible guide to fashion provides more than 1200 entries detailed information on the life and work of every important designer from 1840 to the present day, including not only couturiers but also shoe, hat, and knitwear specialists, costume designers, jewelers and hairdressers. This is an essential sourcebook for designers, students, collectors and enthusiasts.

Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789
Ribeiro, A
Pub. Yale University Press
Price £29.95 hardback

Fabulous Frocks NEW!
Jane Eastoe & Sarah Gristwood
Pub. Pavilion
Price £25.00 hardback
* A stunning celebration of the dress in the twentieth century. * Featuring the most innovative, inspirational, controvarsial and covetable frocks of our time. * From Vionnet to Versace and Dior to Diana.

Fans
Alexander, H
Pub. Shire Publications
Price £4.50 paperback

Fashion & Textiles: The Essential Careers Guide NEW!
Carol Brown
Pub. Laurence King Publishing Ltd
Price £17.95 paperback
A must for any fashion student. This book provides an in-depth review of the wide-ranging career options available in the fashion and textile industry. It profiles over 50 careers that span the creative, technical, retail and media fields. Clearly defined job profiles are accompanied by interviews with people employed in the industry, giving an invaluable insider's view of the different career paths.

Fashion Accessories; The Complete 20th Century Sourcebook
Peacock, J
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £19.95 hardback

Fashioning the Future: Tomorrow's Wardrobe now in paperback
Lee, S
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £19.95 paperback
From spray on dresses to self-assembling raincoats, this book is an inspirational guide to the contemporary science and technology shaping tomorrow's wardrobe. Ten chapters discuss new materials, manufacturing techniques and design methods, from electro-textiles and biotech to smart fibres and nanotech, accompanied by the work of top fashion image-makers Warren du Prees and Nick Thornton- Jones, who illustrate each chapter with a series of stunning fashion 'dreamscapes'. A valuable reference section explains technical terms and points to further specialist information. This book is an essential read for anyone interested in the long-term future of fashion, design, innovation and lifestyle.

History of 20th Century Fashion
Elizabeth Ewing Revised by Alice Mackrell
Pub. Batsford
Price £16.99 paperback
One of the most dynamic, exciting and innovative periods in the history of fashion, the 20th century was a dramatic time of change and reinvention. This comprehensive sourcebook traces these changes, from the elegant attire of Edwardian ladies, through World Wars 1 and 2 to the youth explosion of the 60's and 70's, and from the anarchic era of Punk to street culture at the end of the 20th century.

Horrockses Fashions: Off the peg Style in the 40's and 50's NEW!
Christine Boydell
Pub. V&A Publications
Price £24.99 hardback
Horrockses Fashions draws together fashion photography, textile designs, archival material, personal stories and beautiful dresses to tell the story of one of the most respected ready-to-wear labels on the post-war British High Street.

Jane Austen's Sewing Box: Craft Projects and Stories from Jane Austen's Novels NEW!
Jennifer Forest
Pub. Murdoch Books
Price £14.99 paperback
Jane Austen's Sewing Box opens a window into the lives of Regency women during a beautiful period in arts, crafts and design. Jennifer Forest examines Jane Austen's novels and letters to reveal a world where women are gripped by crazes for painting on glass and netting purses, economise by trimming an old bonnet, or eagerly turn to their sewing to avoid an uncomfortable conversation. Based on Jane Austen's novels and with illustrated step-by-step instructions for eighteen craft projects, this beautifully presented book will delight Jane Austen fans, lovers of history and literature and craft enthusiasts alike.

Nineteenth-Century Fashion Detail
Lucy Johnston
Pub. V&A Publications
Price £19.99 paperback
This book captures the richness of nineteenth-century fashion. As part of the V&A Fashion in Detail series, it explores the opulence and diversity of clothing in the period through exquisite colour photography, specially commissioned line drawings of the garments and authoritative text. Illustrating delicate embroidery on neoclassical gowns, Liberty and Co. smocking, vibrant colour on crinoline and bustles and elegant men's tailoring, Nineteenth Century Fashion in Detail brings the nineteenth-century to life.

Patterns of Fashion 2 - Englishwomen's dresses and their construction c. 1860-1940 BESTSELLER!
Janet Arnold
Pub. Pan
Price £20.00 paperback
No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Illustrated in black and white.

Patterns of Fashion 3 - The cut and construction of clothes for men and women c. 1560 - 1620 BESTSELLER!
Janet Arnold
Pub. Pan
Price £20.00 paperback
No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Illustrated in black and white.

Patterns of Fashion 4: The Cut and Construction of Linen Shirts, Smocks, Neckwear, Headwear and Accessories for Men and Women C. 1540 - 1660 NEW!
Janet Arnold
Pub. Pan
Price £30.00 paperback
No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Since her untimely death in 1998, admirers of her work have been waiting, with increasing impatience, for the promised volume devoted to the linen clothes of the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods, a companion to her previous volume on tailored clothes of the same era. Planned and partly prepared by Janet herself, and completed by Jenny Tiramani, Janet's last pupil, no other book exists that is dedicated to the linen clothes that covered the body from the skin outwards. It contains full colour portraits and photographs of details of garments in the explanatory section, as well as patterns for 86 items of linen clothing, which range from men's shirts and women's smocks, from superb ruffs and collars to boot hose and children's stomachers. Beautifully produced, it is an invaluable guide to both the history and the recreation of these wonderful garments.

Patterns of Fashion: v.1 - Englishwomen's dresses and their construction c.1660-1860 BESTSELLER!
Janet Arnold
Pub. Pan
Price £20.00 paperback
No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Illustrated in black. Janet Arnold was a historian of fashion, which combined her two greatest passions: the theatre and clothes.

Real Western Wear: Beaded Gauntlets from the William P Healey Collection NEW!
Pub. Georgia Museum of Art
Price £15.00 hardback
This catalogue accompanied the exhibition Real Western Wear which presented 73 pairs of decorated gloves. The exhibits, each photographed in detail for the catalogue show the design diversity and technical virtuosity of the American Indian artists who produced these objects between the 1890's and the 1940's.

The Art of Dress - Clothes Through History 1500 - 1914 now in paperback
Jane Ashelford
Pub. National Trust
Price £20.00 paperback
Jane Ashelford has used the National Trust's stunning costume and textile collections as well as its historic house portraits, family correspondence, diaries and household papers. The result is a fascinating account of the history of dress over the past four centuries. Avoiding a mere chronicle of cut, shape and decoration, the author looks at the social aspects of dress - how styles were conveyed, how and where materials and clothes were purchased, what all levels of society wore, from duke to serving boy, and all ages, from widow's weeds to swaddling bands.

The Tudor Tailor
Ninya Mikhaila & Jane Malcolm-Davies
Pub. Batsford
Price £19.99 paperback
Create historically accurate Tudor costumes from hats to doublets. Patterns and practical instructions included, this book is a must for anyone involved in heritage projects, education and costumes for the stage.

What Clothes Reveal; The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America
Baumgarten, L
Pub. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation/Yale University Press
Price £45.00 hardback

Zandra Rhodes: Textile Revolution: Medals, Wiggles and Pop 1961-1971 NEW!
Samantha Erin Safer
Pub. ACC Distribution
Price £25.00 paperback
As a young, eager, and talented textile student, Zandra Rhodes, took inspiration from the Pop movement encircling her at the Royal College of Art and the energy and personalities that put London on the fashion map. Zandra Rhodes was one of the most pioneering and influential textile designers of the late 1960s and 1970s who took her remarkable pop art inspired fabrics and revolutionized the fashion world. This book highlights Rhodes's early textile designs from her years at the Royal College of Art, to her first foray into the fashion world with designs for the legendary Swinging London duo Foale and Tuffin, to the launch of her eponymous collection as well as special commissions for Jacqmar, &Vice Versa, and Sekers Pty Australia. The book features stunning photography of never seen before textiles, drawings, and archival images combined with fashion photography by Clive Arrowsmith, Guy Bourdin, Henry Clarke, David Bailey, Helmut Newton, and Richard Traeger.