medieval books
clothing & textiles - dress accessories

These are grouped into topics but many of these books are useful for a number of areas of research. These books are occasionally in both categories,
but have been mostly included in the areas I found them most useful.

 


Clothing & Textiles

A Dictionary of English Costume 900-1900
by C.W. & P.E. Cunnington and Charles Beard
Adam & Charles Black
London. 1960

A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion
by Mary Brooks Picken
Dover Fashion and Costumes
Dover Publications Inc.
23 March, 1999

A History of Costume In The West
by Francois Boucher
Thames & Hutton
London. 1989
Clothes Make the Man
by Valerie R. Hotchkiss
New Middle Ages
Taylor & Francis Inc.
13/05/1996
Costume Design and Making
A Practical Handbook by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1937

by Mary Fernald and E. Shenton
Dover Publications Inc.
Mineola, New York, 2006
Courtly Love Undressed
Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture
by E. Jane Burns
University of Pennsylvania Press
30th August 2005
Dress In Italian Painting
1460 - 1500

by Elizabeth Birbari
W & J Mackay Limited
Great Britain: 1975
Dress In The Middle Ages
Francoise Piponnier & Perrine Mane
Translated by Caroline Beamish
Yale University Press
New Haven & London. 1997
Early Decorative Textiles
Translated by Yuri Gabriel from the Italian original
Il Tessuto nell'Arte Antica

by W. Fritz Volbach
Paul Hamblyn, Cameo
London, 1969
English Costume
by Dion Clayton Calthrop
Adam & Charles Black
London · MCMVII
English Costume of the Early Middle Ages
The Tenth to the Thirteenth Centuries

Drawn & described by Iris Brooke
A & C Black
London, 1936
Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince
A Study of the Years 1340-1365

by Stella Mary Newton
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The Boydell Press 1980
Gothic Woman's Fashion
Dust Jacket Title: Gothic Fashion in Women's Dress
by Olga Sronkova
translated by Dr. Emil Fiala
Artia; First Edition edition 1954
Historic Costumes and How To Make Them
an unabridges republication of:
Costume Design and Making: A Practical Handbook

by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1937

by Mary Fernald and E. Shenton
Dover Publications Inc.
Mineola, New York, 2006
La Cotte Simple-
An exploration of clothing and accessories of the late 14th and early 15th centuries

by Tasha Dandelion Kelly
http://www.cottesimple.com/index.html
Copyright ©2003–2011
Medieval Clothing and Textiles.
Book 1

Edited by Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker
The Boydell Press. 2005

Medieval Clothing and Textiles.
Book 2

Edited by Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker
The Boydell Press. 2005

Medieval Clothing and Textiles.
Book 3

Edited by Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker
The Boydell Press. 2005
Medieval Costume and Fashion
by Herbert Norris.
Dover Publications Inc.
England. 1999
Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons
by Zoroslava Drobná, Jan Durdík, Eduard Wagner
Dover Fashion and Costumes
April 7, 2014
Medieval Costume in England and France
The 13th, 14th and 15th centuries
by Mary G Newton.
Dover Fashion and Costumes.
Dover Publications
April 11, 1996
Medieval Fabrications.
Dress, Textiles, Cloth Work & other Cultural Imaginings

edited by E. Jane Burns
The New Middle Ages Series
Palgrave Macmillian, 2004
Medieval Garments Reconstructed
Norse Clothing Patterns

by Else Ostergard, Anna Norgard, Lilli Fransen
Aarhus University Press
27 February, 2011

Merchants, Princes and Painters
Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings, 1300-1550

Lisa Monnas
Yale University Press
February 17, 2009

Of His Array Telle I No Longer Tale
Aspects of Costume, arms and armour in Western Europe,
1200-1400

by H.M. Zijlstra-Zweens
Rodopi Press
Amsterdam, 1988
  Some Clothing of the Middle Ages
Historical Clothing from Archaeological Finds

by I. Marc Carleson
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/bockhome.html
Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005.
Stockings & Suspenders- A Quick Flash
by Rosemary Hawthorne
Souvenier Press
Great Britain. 1993
Textiles and Clothing, c.1150-1450
Finds from Medieval Excavations in London

Medieval Finds from Excavations in London series
by Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard & Kay Staniland
Museum of London
The Boydell Press. 1992
  The 1363 English Sumptuary Law
A Comparison with Fabric Prices of the Late 14th Century

by Sarah Kelly Silverman
The Ohio State University

The Historical Encyclopedia of Costumes
by Albert Racinet
Facts On File
New York, 1988

The Medieval Clothier
by John S Lee
Boydell & Brewer
The Boydell Press.
Woodbridge. 2018

The Medieval Tailor's Assistant
Making common garments, 1200 - 1500

by Sarah Thursfield
Quite Specific Media Group Ltd.
California, 2001
Tapestries from the Renaissance to the 19th Century
Cassell's Styles In Art
Cassell Publishers Ltd,
London 1988
The Bayeux Tapestry
by L Musset,
Professer at Caen University
Artaud Freres Publication
World Textiles
A Concise History

by Mary Schoeser
Thames & Hudson World of Art
09 Jun 2003


Dress Accessories

Dress Accessories 1150-1450.
Medieval Finds from Excavations In London

by Geoff Egan and Frances Pritchard
Museum of London
The Boydell Press, 2002

Pilgrim Souveniers and Secular Badges
Brian Spencer
Museum of London
The Boydell Press
2002

Medieval Jewellery in Europe
1100-1500

by Marion Campbell
V&A Museum
V&A Publishing
London, 2009
Medieval Dress Accessories from Nowy Targ Square in Wroclaw
Catalogue of Finds

by Jakub Sawicki
Yellow Point Publications
Wroclaw. 2017
Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery
edited by Hugh Tait
British Museum Press
April, 1989
Shoes and Pattens.
Medieval Finds from Excavations in London

by Francis Grew & Margarethe de Neergaard
Museum of London
The Boydell Press
2001

 

 

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