photo of Grayhill Farm, reconstructed early 17th century farm

Clothing and Textiles

1580–1660 Old Series

Title No. of pages Price
Clothes of the Common Woman 1580-1660. Robert Morris. Uses illustrations, wills, inventories and other sources to establish who was wearing what clothes, cuts, fabrics and colours. 68p £10
Clothes of the Common Man 1580-1660. Robert Morris. Uses illustrations, wills, inventories and other sources to establish who was wearing what clothes, cuts, fabrics and colours. 68p £10
Clothes of the Common Woman part 2: Making the Garments Jane Hugget. Takes the information in part 1 and produces a reasoned interpretation of how to reproduce the garments worn. Includes patterns. 64p £10
Clothes of the Common Man part 2: Making the Garments. Jane Hugget. Takes the information in part 1 and produces a reasoned interpretation of how to reproduce the garments worn. Includes patterns. 56p £9
Children’s Clothing 1580-1660 Jane Huggett. Includes patterns 31p £6
Textiles and Materials of the Common Man and Woman 1580-1660 Provides detailed information on the fabrics used by common people identified in the works above. 76p £11
Dyeing the Clothing of the Common folk 1580-1660 Peachey and Hopkins. Analyses what dyed colours were used for what garments by which common people and gives instructions on the methods used to produce those colours 36p £6
Headwear, Footwear and Trimmings of the Common People 1580-1660 Robert Morris. Examines the accessories such as points, buttons, lace, hooks and eyes, purses etc plus non linen headwear and footwear and stockings of common people. 44p £7
Monmouths and Monteroes. A confusion of caps. Robert Morris. Was the Monmouth cap a synonym for the Monteroe as claimed by one period source? 16p£4
Common Soldiers Clothing of the Civil Wars 1639-1646: Volume 1: Infantry. Stuart Peachey and Alan Turton. The clothing supplied to the armies and the civilian clothing worn where clothing was not issued. Includes patterns and fabric and colour details. 56p £9
The Tale of a Soldiers Coat: Hopkins. Account of the reconstruction of a Royalist Oxford army coat of 1643 24p £5
How to make a Petticoat and Bodice of 1580-1660. Gilly Morley. A step-by-step guide. £4
The Art of the Dyer 1500-1700: Draws on a wide variety of European sources to explain the techniques for producing coloured cloth. David Hopkins. 60p £9
Needlework: A facsimile of a period needlework pattern book. Bootleg Press 20p. £4

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