Vintage Dressmaking & Tailoring Books: 236 Patterns, Sewing, Design (Digital Download)

236 RARE OLD BOOKS ON DRESSMAKING TAILORING MEASUREMENTS CUTTING & SEWING – Digital Instant Download

“DRESSMAKING, TAILORING, MEASUREMENTS, CUTTING, PATTERNS, DESIGN & SEWING"



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.

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236 Books in Total

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The Complete List of the Books Titles

A complete course in dressmaking, by Conover, Isabel De Nyse (1922)
A Complete Course in Millinery, by Julia Bottomly (1919)
A Concise Treatise on Ladies and Misses' Tight-fitting Garments, by Moschcowitz Brothers (1886)
A cyclopaedia of costume or dictionary of dress Vol. 1, by James Robinson Planche (1876)
A cyclopaedia of costume or dictionary of dress Vol. 2, by James Robinson Planche (1876)
A history of feminine fashion (1800s to 1920s)
A self-teaching dress making system, by Minier, E. P (1857)
A series of tables and diagrams illustrating economy in cutting, by John Falconer (1894)
A system for cutting ladies garments, by Leake, Henry (1883)
A text-book of needlework, knitting and cutting out, with methods of teaching, by Elizabeth Rosevear (1893)
A Treatise On Hat Making & Felting, by John Thomson (1868)
Alterations and how to make them (1918)
American garment cutter for women's garments, by Engelmann, Gustav (1913)
American Garment Cutter, by Samuel Regal (1904)
Art in dress, by Brown, P. Clement (1922)
Artistic Ladies Tailor System, by Vienna Ladies Tailoring Institute (1898)
Artistic Ladies Tailor System, by Vienna Ladies Tailoring Institute (1902)
Baughman's advanced hints on dress cutting, by Baughman, J. S (1892)
Bayne's self-instruction book for dress cutting by the French glove-fitting tailor system, by Bayne, J. Reid (1883)
Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information, bt Beeton, Isabella Mary (1879)
Carlstrom's proportions of the human form, by John A. Carlstrom (1905)
Casneau's guide for artistic dress cutting and making, by Casneau, Alice A. (1895)
Clothing & Health - an elementary textbook of home making, by Helen Kinne (1916)
Clothing & Health - an elementary textbook of home making, by Helen Kinne (1919)
Clothing & Health - an elementary textbook of home making, by Helen Kinne (1920)
Clothing for women; selection, design, construction; a practical manual, by Baldt, Laura Irene (1916)
Clothing for women; selection, design, construction; a practical manual, by Baldt, Laura Irene (1919)
Clute's actual measurement system and key to scientific dress making, by Clute, J. Redfield (1891)
Coates sewing and dress making manual, by Coates, Lydia Trattles (1912)
Complete instructions for Mrs. Louisa Teague's self-teaching dress-chart, byTeague, Louise (1895)
Complete sewing instructions, by Russell, Maude (1917)
Corticelli Dressmaker's Spool Silk Color Card , by Nonotuck Silk Company
Corticelli Home Needlework, by Barton Wilson (1898)
Dame fashion Paris - London, 1786-1912, by Price, Julius M (1913)
Devereaux's actual measure system, by C. Devereaux (1883)
Devereaux's French system of actual measure of scientific dress and sleeve cutting, by Wetterhall, O. S (1890)
Directions for cutting garments with the Davis improved square, by Davis, Myra A. Mrs (1888)
Directions for using the New York self-instructing system and chart for cutting ladies' and misses' dresses, by Briggs, D B (1889)
Distinctive Clothes, How To Select And Make Them An Intermediate Course, by Consalus. Frances Hamilton (1940)
Domestic art in woman's education, by Cooley, Anna M (1911)
Dr. Wampen's world renowned system of anthropometry as simplified and Americanized, by James H. Hutcheson (1903)
Dress and cloak fitting made easy, by Studabecker, J. A (1881)
Dress fitting made easy, by Barnes, A., L (1892)
Dress making reduced to a science, by Mallision, E. W (1886)
Dress, blouse, and costume cloths, design and fabric manufacture, by Beaumont, Robert (1921)
Dressmakers dictionary, by Homer Curtis (1916)
Dressmaking and millinery, by Bryner, Edna (1916)
Dressmaking as a trade for women in Massachusetts, by Allinson, May (1916)
Dressmaking course, by Pratt Institute (1903)
Dressmaking made easy, by Conover, Isabel De Nyse (1919)
Dressmaking self taught in twenty complete lessons, by Carens, Edith Marie (1911)
Dressmaking, by Fales, Jane (1917)
Efficiency in clothing, by Reed, Ruth Stevens (1921)
Efficiency, simplicity, economy in cutting and making ladies' garments, by Gurney, Edmund (1917)
Eugene Pecori's perfect system of cutting ladies garments, by Pecori, Eugene (1912)
Every lady her own dressmaker, by Molpoer, Louis 1891
Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897, by Uzanne, Octave (1898)
Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste and æsthetics from the revolution to the end of the XIXth century, by Octave Uzanne (1901)
Fitting dresses and blouses, by Maude Campbell (1927)
Fitting dresses, by Edna E. Somerfeld (1945)
Fit-u-first dress-making & tailoring schools, by Walsh, James J (1915)
Garment cutting self-taught, by Abercrombie, Emma (1889)
Garment drafting by simple rule method, by Gingles, Mae Milbourne (1907)
Garments For Girls, by Celestine Leontine Schmit (1919)
Glickstein's system; ladies', misses' and children's garments, practical methods of designing according to proportions, by Philip Glickstein (1909)
Godey's Lady's Book - August 1863, by Louis A. Godey (1863)
Godey's Lady's Book - February 1864, by Louis A Godey (1864)
Godey's Lady's Book - January 1860, by Louis A. Godey (1860)
Godey's Lady's Book - January 1863, by Louis A. Godey (1863)
Godey's Lady's Book - July 1863, by Louis A. Godey (1863)
Godey's Lady's Book - July 1864, by Louis A. Godey (1864)
Godey's Lady's Book - March 1864, by Louis A Godey (1864)
Godey's Lady's Book - Nov 1864, by Louis A. Godey (1864)
Guide to dressmaking, by Symonds, J. Henry (1876)
Handbook on Dress & Cloak Cutting, by Charles Hecklinger (1884)
Hecklinger's ladies' garments, by Hecklinger, Charles (1886)
Historic costumes - their influence on modern fashions, by Dutchett, Samuel Herbert (1920)
Home dressmaking and the art of good dressing, by De Barras, Easton (18--)
Home dressmaking made easy, by Hooper, Emma (1896)
Home dressmaking made easy, by Hooper, Emma (1903)
Home dressmaking, by Ford, Jane (1913)
Home dressmaking; a complete guide to household sewing, by Myers, Annie (1892)
Household Sewing With Home Dressmaking, by Bertha Banner (1898)
How to cut, fit, and finish a dress, by Löfvall, J H Mme (1892)
How To Design Your Own Clothes, by Shelton, Hannah Corbett (1934)
How to make over old dresses, by Prescott, Augusta (1892)
Instruction book for the French and English systems of cutting, fitting and basting, by McCall, James (1881)
Instruction book for the Kellogg French tailor system for cutting every description of ladies' garments, by Kellogg, F. J. (1890)
Instruction book for the standard tailor system, by Evan, H. P (1896)
Instruction book of Bisbee's American tailor system of dress cutting, by Bisbee, F.S (1895)
Instruction book to be used only as a guide and partial study in the expert course in dressmaking, by Van Ame, Emma (1915)
Instruction book, by Diamond Garment Cutter Correspondence School, Chicago (1903)
Instruction book, giving full information for using the self-adjusting tailor system of garment cutting, by M. Jones (1891)
Instruction book...designing, pattern drafting, dress making, millinery, by Livingston's academy (1922)
Instructions for using Fountain's tailor system of dress cutting, by Fountain, J. H (1890)
Instructions for using Fountain's tailor system of dress cutting, by Fountain, J. H, 2nd copy (1890)
Instructions in dressmaking, basting and fitting, by Moschocowitz Brothers (1884)
La mode design and suitability of dress - Volume Book 1, by Jobin, Marie Eugenie (1940)
La mode design and suitability of dress - Volume Book 2 - Book 3, by Jobin, Marie Eugenie (1940)
La mode design and suitability of dress, by Jobin, Marie Eugenie (1940)
Make Mend For Victory, by The Spool Cotton Company (1942)
Makers of our clothes, by Meyer, Adele Levis (1909)
Making a dress at home, by Margaret Smith (1944)
Making a dress at home, by United States Department of Agriculture (1944)
Manual of apparel drafting and sewing, by Kunz, Mattie (1914)
Margaret Blair system of garment drafting, by Margaret Blair (1897)
Margaret J. Blair's system of sewing and garment drafting, by Blair, Margaret (1904)
Martin's tailor system for dress and cloak cutting, by James A. Martin (1888)
Mending Men's Suits, by Clarice Scott (1943)
Mending Men's Suits, by Clarice Scott (1946)
Merz's practical cutting system for ladies' jackets and cloaks, by William Merz (1911)
Millinery, by Charlotte Rankin Aiken (1918)
Millinery, by Charlotte Rankin Aiken (1922)
Miss Leslie's lady's house-book, by Leslie, Eliza (1850)
Miss Leslie's lady's house-book, by Leslie, Eliza (1863)
Mme. Veitch-Simonds' drapery system chart, by Annie Simonds (1889)
Modern Millinery - A Workroom Text Book, by Hester Lyon (1922)
Mrs. A. J. Wuerfel's tailors rules and diagrams, by Augusta J. Wuerfel (1900)
Mrs. Herbert's scientific system of dress cutting, for self-instruction, by Herbert, Charles (1897)
N. S. Sheifer's system of designing and grading ladies', misses' & children's garments , by Sheifer, N. S (1908)
New superlative system of cutting ladies' garments, by Stone, Charles John (1901)
New teacher of ladies' home tailoring, by George Hurwitz (1910)
Oriental costumes their designs and colors, by Tilke, Max (1922)
Parisian Ladies Tailoring System, by Alexander Zeisler (1917)
Pattern alteration, by Margaret Smith (1945)
Pattern alteration, by United States Department of Agriculture (1945)
Pattern alteration; a guide for leaders in clothing programs, by United States Department of Agriculture (1965)
Pattern making, by Hanna, Agnes Keith (1922)
Points on Dress Cutting & Fitting, by George Greenwood (1890)
Practical instruction in cutting out and making up hospital garments for sick and wounded, by Peek, Emily (1914)
Practical sewing and dressmaking, by Allington, Sara May (1913)
Prof. M. Kaphan's kid glove-fitting system for ladies', misses', children's and gents' garments, by Kaphan, M (1890)
Proportionate system of coat cutting, by Charles Hecklinger (1883)
Ratner's up-to-date method of designing, by Rather, henry Wolf (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 Brown, Harriet (1902)
Self-fitting dress chart patterns, by Cornwell, Willett (1872)
Sewing Machines, by Rosamond C Cook (1922)
Simple garments for children - from 4 to 14, by Synge, M. B (1914)
Simplified directions for using L. B. Hale's new tailor system of French dress cutting, by Hale L.B (1885)
Simplified pattern cutting; a new and easy method, by Lynch, Frances (1918)
Simplified sewing, by Dodson, Ethelwyn (1953)
Some points in fitting dresses and blouses with set in sleeves, by Bureau of Home Economics (1929)
Studies in plain needlework and amateur dressmaking, by Ross, Harry (1887)
Suggestions for dressmakers, by Broughton, Catherine (1896)
Superlative system of cutting ladies' garments, by Stone, Charles John (1897)
T. W. Byrnes' new and improved system, with the dress-maker's model measure sheet, by Byrnes, Thomas (1892)
Tailor system for cutting ladies garments, by Kellogg, F. J. (1880)
Text Book On Domestic Art, by Carrie Crane Ingalls (1911)
Text book with diagrams and illustrations embodying the basic principles of designing and garment cutting, by Juditha Blackburn (1917)
Text-book of the great modern system for designing and cutting ladies' garments, by Rude, A. D (1900)
Textiles - A Handbook for the student and the consumer, by Mary Schenck Woolman (1913)
Textiles & Clothing, by Kate Heintz Watson (1907)
Textiles & Clothing, by Kate Heintz Watson (1910)
Textiles & Clothing, by Kate Heintz Watson (1913)
Textiles & Clothing, by Kate Heintz Watson (1925)
Textiles & Clothing, by Kate Heintz Watson, 2nd copy (1907)
Textiles & Costume Design, by Evelyn Peters Ellsworth (1917)
Textiles and clothing, by McGowan, Ellen (1919)
The A B C of dress, by Harry Collins (1923)
The American designer and cutter; a complete, practical work on designing, cutting, grading, fitting, sketching & tailoring, by Saul Schor (1915)
The American garment cutter for women, by Gustav R. Engelmann (1904)
The American lady-tailor glove-fitting system of dress making, by Gartland, Elizabeth, Mrs (1884)
The American metrical system for cutting ladies' and children's dresses and all close fitting garments, by Carman & Blaney, Steubenville (1884)
The American system of dressmaking, by Merwin, Pearl (1907)
The American system of dressmaking, by Merwin, Pearl (1909)
The American system of dressmaking, by Merwin, Pearl (1912)
The American system of dressmaking, by Merwin, Pearl, 2nd copy (1907)
The art of dressmaking at home and in the workroom, by Boudet, Marie (1903)
The cutters' practical guide to the cutting of ladies' garments, by Vincent, William D. F (1890)
The delineator, vol. 24, No. 2, by the Butterick Publishing CO. August (1891)
The delineator, vol. 38, No. 5, by The delineator Publishing CO. November (1891)
The delineator, vol. 53, No. 1, by The delineator Publishing CO. January (1899)
The diamond garment cutter, by Goldsberry, Doran & Nelson (1895)
The dictionary of needlework, an encyclopædia, by Caulfeild, Sophia Frances (1882)
The dictionary of needlework, Volume 1, by Caulfeild, Sphia (1885)
The dictionary of needlework, Volume 2, by Caulfeild, Sphia (1885)
The dictionary of needlework, Volume 3, by Caulfeild, Sphia (1885)
The dictionary of needlework, Volume 4, by Caulfeild, Sphia (1885)
The dictionary of needlework, Volume 5, by Caulfeild, Sphia (1885)
The dictionary of needlework, Volume 6, by Caulfeild, Sphia (1885)
The dress and cloak cutter, by Charles Hecklinger (1884)
The dress you wear and how to make it, by Mary J. Rhoe (1918)
The Dressmaker, by Butterick Publishing Company (1911)
The Dressmaker, by Butterick Publishing Company (1916)
The elements of modern dressmaking for the amateur and professional dressmaker, by Davis, Jeanette (1894)
The elements of modern dressmaking for the amateur and professional dressmaker, by Davis, Jeanette (1896)
The Expert Designer, by Saul Schorr (1917)
The garment cutter and ladies guide, by Hunter, A. J (1853)
The geometric system of cutting garments for ladies and gentlemen on geometrical lines and principles, by Denieffe, Joseph (1900)
The hand-book of dress-making, by Mary Howell (1845)
The history of the art of cutting in England, by Edward B. Giles (1887)
The home dressmakers' guide, by Blackburn, Judith (1919)
The illuminated ladies' book of useful and ornamental needlework, by Henry Owen (1844)
The improved Franco-American form - An adjustable instrument and perfected method for draughting, cutting, by G. Greenwood (1884)
The influence of clothing on health, by Frederick Treves (1886)
The international encyclopedia of scientific tailor principles, by Christner, D.C. (1885)
The Keif method of cutting coats and vests, by Keif, Frederic Augustus (1899)
The key to success, by C. Moll (1882)
The Keystone Jacket & Dress Cutter, by Charles Hecklinger (1895)
The Keystone system. A text-book on cutting and designing ladies' garments, by Hecklinger, Charles (1891)
The keystone systems, coats, vests and trousers, by Charles Hecklinger (1903)
The Kintzel dress cutting system, by Kintzel, A. G (1896)
The ladies' tailor complete instructor, by Hughes & Storey (1892)
The national course in home economics; how to practice economy in home milinery, home dressmaking, by Beezley Ruth Allen (1917)
The national garment cutter book of diagrams. Goldsberry & Doran, proprietors, by Goldsberry, Doran & Nelson (1888)
The National garment cutter, by Goldsberry, Doran & Nelson (1884)
The new dressmaker; complete and fully illustrated instructions on sewing, dressmaking & tailoring, by Butterick Publishing Company (1921)
The original American lady tailor system, by Gartland, Elizbeth, Mrs (1884)
The Parisian tailor complete instructor and practical guide to ladies' tailoring, by Fourier, Paul A. (1895)
The pattern New era cutting system, by Ferguson, Albert (1915)
The perfect dress fitter - Complete instructions in the art of cutting all kinds of garments, by Bearrie, A. E. (1890)
The perfect dressmaking system, by Bennet, Ella Alvira (1914)
The perfection taylor system by actual measurement for ladies' and children's garments, by Denny, L., Mrs (1891)
The practical designer for women's and misses' underwear, by Rosenfeld, Isidor (1918)
The practical designer for women's, misses', juniors' childeren's and infants, by Rosenfeld, Isidor (1918)
The practical sketcher; a complete method of sketching, for women's, misses', junior's, children's & infant's garments, by Isidor Rosenfeld (1915)
The practical system for drafting ladies' and children's clothing, by Blakely, Elizabeth (1907)
The science and art of cutting and making ladies garments, by Griffin, C. H. (1873)
The science and geometry of dress, by Jackson, Louisa (1876)
The science and geometry of dress, by Jackson, Louisa (1889)
The science of dress cutting by the Wilson method, by Wilson, James A (1880)
The scientific system of dress cutting, by Hamilton, Nellie (1894)
The Secret of Successful Tailoring, by Edward Watkins (1910)
The self-balancing system of cutting ladies' garments, by Dittmar & Sheifer (1891)
The standard work on cutting ladies' tailor-made garments, by Gordon, S. S (1908)
The U. S. A. system of ladies & gentlemen's garments cutting, by Spikman, Frins (1918)
The Weiler ladies tailor - dressmaker, designer, cutter and fitter book, by Sigmond Georg Weiler (1915)
Thrift clothing. by Mrs. Anna Hedges Talbot, with contributions by Mettie B. Hills & Laura M. Weisner (1918)
Underwear and lingerie, Part 1, by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences (1925)
Underwear and lingerie, Part 2, by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences (1926)
Weidel's Instruction Book, by Joseph Anton Weidel (1910)
Weidel's Instruction Book, by Joseph Anton Weidel (1914)
Weinberg's cloak, skirt and cape cutter. perfect method for self instruction on the art of cutting ladies' cloaks, skirts & capes, by Benjamin Weinberg (1900)
Wendorf's practical cutting method ... for ladies' and men's garments, by Wendorf, William (1913)
Work's ladies' tailor system; a self instructor in the art of cutting and fitting ladies' garments, by Work, William Albert (1914)

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