THE VINTAGE DRESSMAKING
COLLECTION
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A truly
unique and wonderful collection of over 190 rare, out-of-print books, guides
and manuals compiled together for the first time on USB FLASH DRIVE covering all
aspects of DRESSMAKING & LADIES TAILORING.
This really
is the ultimate treasure trove for any sewing enthusiast or dressmaker, whether
amateur or professional. Discover the art of designing and drafting all types
of women’s clothing. Explore various methods of taking measurements, pattern-making
and dress cutting. Study the principles of practical tailoring, garment cutting
and repair work. Master your skills using these vintage tried and tested
systems to create your own unique clothing.
Some of the books contained within
this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library
of reference material. Overall, a stunning archive and an absolute must for
anyone with and dressmaking, women’s clothing and design, sewing and tailoring.
The full list of titles included speaks for itself….
This superb
compilation of 193 vintage books on a USB flash drive provides literally 1,000’s of
pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All
of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf
format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet,
smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select
pages.
This is
without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by
rare-book-collections, and only available here!
The Full
List of Titles Included is as Follows:
A complete course in dressmaking by I. Conover (1922)
A Concise Treatise on Ladies and Misses'
Tight-fitting Garments - by Moschowitz Brothers (1886)
A cyclopaedia of costume or dictionary of
dress Vol. 1 by J. R. Planche (1876)
A cyclopaedia of costume or dictionary of
dress Vol. 2 by J. R. Planche (1876)
A history of feminine fashion by House of
Worth (1921)
A self-teaching dress making system by E.
P. Minier (1857)
A series of tables and diagrams
illustrating economy in cutting, being economical methods for cutting out
garments by J. Falconer (1894)
A system for cutting ladies garments by H.
Leake (1883)
A text-book of needlework, knitting, and
cutting out - with methods of teaching by E. Rosevear
(1893)
Alterations and how to make them (1918)
Art in dress by P. Brown (1922)
Artistic ladies tailor system by Vienna ladies' tailoring
institute (1898)
Baughman's advanced hints on dress cutting
by J. Baughman (1892)
Bayne's self-instruction book for dress
cutting by the French glove-fitting tailor system by J. Bayn (1883)
Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic
information by I. Beeton (1879)
Carlstrom's proportions of the human form
by J. A. Carlstrom (1905)
Casneau's guide for artistic dress cutting
and making by A. Casneau (1895)
Clothing and health by H. Kinne (1916)
Clothing for women; selection, design,
construction; a practical manual for school and home by L. Baldt (1919)
Clute's actual measurement system and key
to scientific dress making by J. Clute (1891)
Coates sewing and dress making manual by L.
Coates (1912)
Complete instructions for Mrs. Louisa
Teague's self-teaching dress-chart by L. Teague (1895)
Complete sewing instructions by M. Russell
(1917)
Corticelli Home Needlework by L. Barton
(1898)
Dame fashion, Paris - London, 1786-1912 by
J. M. Price (1913)
Devereaux's actual measure system by C.
Devereaux (1883)
Devereaux's French system of actual measure
of scientific dress and sleeve cutting by O. S. Wetterhall (1890)
Directions for cutting garments with the Davis improved square by
M. Davis (1888)
Directions for using the New York self-instructing system and chart
fo cutting ladies' and misses' dresses by D. Briggs (1889)
Distinctive Clothes, How To Select And Make
Them An Intermediate Course by F. Consalus (1920)
Domestic art in woman's education by A. M.
Cooley (1911)
Dr. Wampen's world renowned system of
anthropometry as simplified and Americanized by J. H. Hutcheson (1903)
Dress and cloak fitting made easy by J. A.
Studabecker (1881)
Dress fitting made easy by A. L. Barnes
(1892)
Dress making reduced to a science by E. W.
Mallision (1886)
Dress, blouse, and costume cloths, design
and fabric manufacture by R. Beaumont (1921)
Dressmakers dictionary by H. Curtis (1916)
Dressmaking and millinery by E. Bryner
(1916)
Dressmaking as a trade for women in Massachusetts by M.
Allinson (1916)
Dressmaking by J. Fales (1917)
Dressmaking course by Pratt Institute, School of Domestic Arts (1903)
Dressmaking made easy by I.
Conover (1919)
Dressmaking self taught in twenty complete
lessons by E. Carens (1911)
Efficiency in clothing by R. Reed (1921)
Efficiency, simplicity, economy in cutting
and making ladies' garments by E. Gurney (1917)
Eugene Pecori's perfect system of cutting
ladies garments by E. Pecori (1912)
Every lady her own dressmaker the scientific lady tailor system for cutting
ladies' dresses and coats no fitting to
do improved and simplified by L. Molpoer
(1891)
Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste
and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 by O. Uzanne (1898)
Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste
and æsthetics from the revolution to the end of the XIXth century by O. Uzanne
(1901)
Fitting dresses and blouses by M. Campbell
(1921)
Fit-u-first dress-making & tailoring
schools by J. Walsh (1915)
Garment cutting self-taught by E.
Abercrombie (1889)
Garment drafting by simple rule method by M
Gingles (1907)
Garments for girls by C. L. Schmit (1919)
Glickstein's system; ladies', misses' and
children's garments, practical methods of designing according to proportions by
P. Glickstein (1909)
Godey's Lady's Book (July 1863)
Godey's Lady's Book (June 1864)
Guide to dressmaking by J. Symons (1876)
Handbook on dress and cloak cutting by C.
Hecklinger (1884)
Hecklinger's ladies' garments by C.
Hecklinger (1886)
Historic costumes - their influence on
modern fashions by S. H. Dutchett (1920)
Home dressmaking and the art of good
dressing by E. da Baras (1883)
Home dressmaking by J. Ford (1913)
Home dressmaking made easy by E. Hooper
(1903)
Home dressmaking; a complete guide to
household sewing by A. Myers (1892)
Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking by
B. Banner (1898)
How to cut, fit, and finish a dress by J.
Lofvall (1892)
How To Design Your Own Clothes by H. C.
Shelton (1921)
How to make over old dresses by A. Prescott
(1892)
Instruction book...designing, pattern
drafting, dress making, millinery. by Livingston's academy, Washington, D. C. (1922)
Instruction book ... to be used only as a
guide and partial study in the expert course in dressmaking by E. van Ame
(1915)
Instruction book by Diamond Garmand
Cutter School
(1903)
Instruction book by Diamond Garment Cutter
Correspondence School, Chicago
(1903)
Instruction book for the French and English
systems of cutting, fitting and basting by J. McCall (1881)
Instruction book for the Kellogg French
tailor system for cutting every description of ladies' garments by F. Kellogg
(1890)
Instruction book for the standard tailor
system by H. Evan (1896)
Instruction book of Bisbee's American
tailor system of dress cutting by F. Bisbee (1895)
Instruction book, giving full information
for using the self-adjusting tailor system of garment cutting by M. Jones
(1891)
Instructions for using Fountain's tailor
system of dress cutting by J. Fountain (1890)
Instructions in dressmaking, basting and
fitting (1884)
Makers of our clothes; a case for trade
boards, being the results of a year's investigation into the work of women in
London in the tailoring, dressmaking, and underclothing trades by C. Meyer
(1909)
Making a dress at home by M. Smith (1921)
Manual of apparel drafting and sewing by M.
Kunz (1914)
Margaret Blair system of garment drafting
by M. Blair (1897)
Margaret J. Blair's system of sewing and
garment drafting by M. J. Blair (1904)
Martin's tailor system for dress and cloak
cutting by J. A. Martin (1888)
Merz's practical cutting system for ladies'
jackets and cloaks by W. Merz (1911)
Miss Leslie's lady's house-book; a manual
of domestic economy containing approved directions for washing, dress-making,
etc. by E. Leslie (1863)
Mme. Veitch-Simonds' drapery system chart
by A. Simonds (1889)
Mrs. A. J. Wuerfel's tailors rules and
diagrams by A. J. Wuerfel (1900)
Mrs. Herbert's scientific system of dress
cutting, for self-instruction by C. Herbert (1897)
N. S. Sheifer's system of designing and
grading ladies', misses' & children's garments by N. S. Sheifer (1908)
New superlative system of cutting ladies'
garments by C. Stone (1901)
New teacher of ladies' home tailoring by G.
Hurwitz (1910)
Oriental costumes, their designs and colors
by M. Tilke (1922)
Parisian ladies' tailoring system for
designing, pattern cutting, fitting and making waists, skirts, dresses, suits
and all outer garments by A. Z. Zeisler (1917)
Pattern alteration by M. Smith (1915)
Pattern making by A. K. Hanna (1922)
Points on dress cutting and fitting by G.
Greenwood (1890)
Practical instruction in cutting out ...
and women's apparel including dressmaking
by E. Peek (1914)
Practical sewing and dressmaking by S Allington (1913)
Prof. M. Kaphan's kid glove-fitting system
for ladies', misses', children's and gents' garments by M. Kaphan (1890)
Proportionate system of coat cutting by C.
Hecklinger (1883)
Ratner's up-to-date method of designing;
school of designing, cutting, grading and fitting, for ladies', gentlemen's and
children's garments, dressmaking and furs by H. Ratner (1908)
Rosenbleet's perfect system of ladies'
garment cutting, specially designed for self instruction by J. Rosenbleet
(1911)
Scientific dress cutting and making, The
Harriet A. Brown system, simplified and improved; directions for its use by H.
Brown (1902)
Self-fitting dress chart patterns by W.
Cornwell (1872)
Sewing machines by R. C. Cook (1922)
Simple garments for children by M. B. Synge
(1914)
Simplified directions for using L. B.
Hale's new tailor system of French dress cutting by L. Hale (1885)
Simplified pattern cutting; a new and easy
method by F. Lynch (1918)
Studies in plain needlework and amateur
dressmaking by H. Ross (1887)
Suggestions for dressmakers by C. Broughton
(1896)
Superlative system of cutting ladies'
garments by C. J. Stone (1897)
T. W. Byrnes' new and improved system, with
the dress-maker's model measure sheet by T. Byrnes (1882)
Tailor system for cutting ladies garments
by F. J. Kellogg (1880)
Text book with diagrams and illustrations
embodying the basic principles of designing, reproducing and garment cutting by
J. Blackburn (1917)
Text-book of the great modern system for
designing and cutting ladies' garments by A. D. Rude (1900)
Text-book on domestic art, with
illustrations and drafts by C. Ingalls (1911)
Textiles and clothing by E. B. McGowan
(1919)
Textiles and clothing by K. Watson (1907)
Textiles and costume design by E. P.
Ellsworth (1917)
Textiles; a handbook for the student and
the consumer by M. S. Woolman (1913)
The A B C of dress by Harry Collins (1923)
The American designer and cutter; a
complete, practical and up-to-date work on the art of designing, cutting,
grading, fitting, sketching and practical tailoring by S. Schor (1915)
The American garment cutter for women by R.
G. Engelmann (1904)
The American lady-tailor glove-fitting
system of dress making by E. Gartland (1884)
The American metrical system for cutting
ladies' and children's dresses and all close fitting garments (1884)
The American system of dressmaking by P.
Merwin (1909)
The art of dressmaking at home and in the
workroom by M. Boudet (1903)
The cutters' practical guide to the cutting
of ladies' garments by W. Vincent (1890)
The delineator, vol. 24
The delineator, vol. 38
The delineator, vol. 53
The diamond garment cutter by Goldsberry,
Doran & Nelson (1895)
The dictionary of needlework an encyclopaedia of artistic, plain, and
fancy needlework Vols. 1 - 6 - S. Caulfeild
(1890)
The dress and cloak cutter by C. Hecklinger
(1884)
The dress you wear and how to make it by M.
J. Rhoe (1918)
The dressmaker (1911)
The elements of modern dressmaking for the
amateur and professional dressmaker by J. Davis (1894)
The expert designer; a practical and
up-to-date work on the art of designing and pattern-making of women's cloaks,
suits, waists, dresses and skirts by S. Schorr (1917)
The garment cutter and ladies guide by A.
Hunter (1853)
The geometric - a system of cutting
garments for ladies and gentlemen on geometrical lines and principles by J.
Denieffe (1900)
The hand-book of dress-making by M. J.
Howell (1845)
The history of the art of cutting in England
by E. B. Giles (1887)
The home dressmakers' guide; containing
knowledge found to be of inestinable value during a lifetime of experience in
dressmaking and tailoring by J. Blackburn (1919)
The illuminated ladies' book of useful and
ornamental needlework by H. Owen (1844)
The improved Franco-American form - An
adjustable instrument and perfected method for draughting, cutting, and fitting
dresses and all inside and outside garments by G. Greenwood (1884)
The influence of clothing on health by F.
Treves (1886)
The international encyclopedia of
scientific tailor principles, for all kinds and styles of garment-making,
designing, embroidery, crocheting, knitting, needle work by D. Christner (1885)
The Keif method of cutting coats and vests
by F. A. Keif (1899)
The key to success by C. Moll (1882)
The Keystone jacket and dress cutter. A
treatise on jackets, dresses and other garments for women by C. Hecklinger
(1895)
The Keystone system. A text-book on cutting
and designing ladies' garments by C. Hecklinger (1891)
The keystone systems, coats, vests and
trousers by C. Hecklinger (1903)
The Kintzel dress cutting system by A.
Kintzel (1896)
The ladies' tailor complete instructor by
Hughes & Storey (1892)
The national garment cutter book of
diagrams by Goldsberry & Doran (1888)
The new dressmaker; with complete and fully
illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and
tailoring (1921)
The original American lady tailor system by
E. Gartland (1884)
The Parisian tailor complete instructor and
practical guide to ladies' tailoring by P. Fourier (1895)
The pattern New era cutting system by A. E.
Ferguson (1915)
The perfect dress fitter - Complete
instructions in the art of cutting all kinds of garments by A. Bearrie (1890)
The perfect dressmaking system by E.
Bennett (1914)
The perfection taylor system by actual measurement for
ladies' and children's garments by L. Denny (1891)
The practical designer by I.
Rosenfeld (1918)
The practical designer, for women's,
misses', juniors' & children's cloaks & suits, shirt waist suits and
dresses by I. Rosenfeld (1911)
The practical sketcher; a complete and
practical method of sketching, for women's, misses', junior's, children's and
infant's garments by I. Rosenfeld (1915)
The practical system for drafting ladies'
and children's clothing, designed for use in the public schools by E. Blakeley
(1907)
The science and art of cutting and making
ladies garments by C. H. Griffin (1873)
The science and geometry of dress by L.
Jackson (1876)
The science of dress cutting by the Wilson method by J. A.
Wilson (1880)
The scientific system of dress cutting by N. Hamilton (1894)
The secret of successful tailoring by E.
Watkins (1910)
The self-balancing system of cutting
ladies' garments by Dittmar & Sheifer (1891)
The standard work on cutting ladies'
tailor-made garments by S. S. Gordon (1908)
The U. S. A. system of ladies &
gentlemen's garments cutting by F. Spikman (1918)
The Weiler ladies tailor--dressmaker,
designer, cutter and fitter book by S. G. Weiler (1915)
Twentieth century instruction book;
artistic ladies' tailor system (1902)
Underwear and lingerie (1921)
Underwear and lingerie (1922)
Weidel's combined tailor square and curves;
a complete treatise on drafting ladies' and children's garments by the square
and curves combined by J. A. Weidel (1914)
Weinberg's cloak, skirt and cape cutter. A
simple and perfect method for self instruction on the art of cutting ladies'
cloaks, skirts and capes by B. Weinberg (1900)
Wendorf's practical cutting method; a new
system which enables one to take correct measurements and draft patterns for
ladies' and men's garments by W. Wendorf (1913)
Work's ladies' tailor system; a self
instructor in the art of cutting and fitting ladies' garments by W. A. Work
(1914)
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