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Dressmaker and design / by Henderson, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; History of Dressmaking; Glove; Sock; Shoe; Glasses; Changing Fashion; Kilt; Sarong; Fashion House; Haute Couture; Formal Wear; Barong Tagalog; Veil; Kimono; Tie; Silk; Shirt; Tips for Fashion; Bow Tie.…”
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The dressmaker of Khair Khana : five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe / by Tzemach Lemmon, Gayle

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A History of the Paper Pattern Industry : the Home Dressmaking Fashion Revolution / by Emery, Joy Spanabel

Table of Contents: “…Tailoring and the Birth of the Published Paper Pattern -- Development of Dressmaking Patterns: 1800-1860 -- Nineteenth-century Technology -- Early History of Pattern Companies: 1860s-1880s -- New Markets and Expansion: 1880s-1900 -- Shifts and Balances: 1900-1920s -- Blossoming Economy: 1920-1929 -- Surviving the Depression: 1930s -- The War Years: 1940s -- Shifting Trends: Postwar-1950s -- New Challenges: 1960s-1980s -- Reinvention and Renaissance: 1980s-2010 -- Epilogue.…”
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Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method : Customize Fitting Shells to Create Garments in Any Style. by Alm, Sara

Subjects: “…Dressmaking Pattern design.…”
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Metric pattern cutting for women's wear by Aldrich, Winifred

Subjects: “…Dressmaking Pattern design.…”
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Pattern cutting / Pattern making by Lo, Dennic Chunman

Subjects: “…Dressmaking Pattern design.…”
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Fashion details : 1,000 ideas from neckline to waistline, pockets to pleats

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DIY couture : create your own fashion collection by Martin, Rosie, 1983-

Subjects: “…Dressmaking.…”
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Leather fashion design by Sterlacci, Francesca

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Best Village.

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Famine and Fashion : Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century. by Harris, Beth

Table of Contents: “…Blurred Boundaries in the Careers of Self-Employed Needlewomen in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany -- 9 Scarlett's Sisters: Spinsters, Widows, Wives, and Free-Traders in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina -- 10 "Thinking and Stitching, Stitching and Thinking": Needlework, American Women Writers, and Professionalism -- 11 "Furnishing Girls with Self-Supporting Trades": Custom Needlework and Vocational Education, 1890-1920 -- 12 Virtue, Vice, and Revolution: Representations of Parisian Needlewomen in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 13 "A Heavy Bill to Settle with Humanity": The Representation and Invisibility of London's Principal Milliners and Dressmakers -- 14 "Wanted: 1000 Spirited Young Milliners": The Fund for Promoting Female Emigration -- 15 "To Be Poor and To Be Honest ... …”
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Fabric for fashion : a comprehensive guide to natural fibres by Hallett, Clive

Subjects: “…Dressmaking materials.…”
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Two streets & Adela = (Dos calles y una chica) / Dos calles y una chica

Subjects: “…Women dressmakers Spain Jerez de la Frontera Drama.…”
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The pattern development video

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Fabric for Fashion : the Complete Guide. by Hallett, Clive

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Vogue.

Subjects: “…Dressmaking Periodicals. sh2009123816…”

The female economy : the millinery and dressmaking trades, 1860-1930 / by Gamber, Wendy, 1958-

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Draping : the complete course by Kiisel, Karolyn

Subjects: “…Dressmaking Technique.…”
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The church of solitude by Deledda, Grazia, 1871-1936

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Sunday morning. Princess Diana / Flashback :

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Studs & pearls : 30 creative projects for customized fashion by Nunez, Kirsten

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Sewing, fighting and writing : radical practices in work, politics and culture by Tamboukou, Maria, 1958-

Subjects: “…Women dressmakers France Paris History 19th century.…”
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Untold. from slavery to the White House / Elizabeth Keckly :

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Draping period costumes : classical Greek to Victorian by Sobel, Sharon, 1959-

Subjects: “…Dressmaking.…”
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Guide to basic garment assembly for the fashion industry by Smith, Jayne, 1960-

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Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. by Keckley, Elizabeth

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Swallowing mercury by Grzegorzewska, Wioletta

Table of Contents: “…-- Waiting for the popemobile -- The little paint girl -- A picture pays a visit -- Whitsunday -- An Easter pasha -- Spiders from Jerusalem -- Waves -- Gienek the combine driver -- Pierced lids -- The dressmaker's secret -- Strawberry -- The woman with a dog -- Sour cherries -- The phillumenist -- Dolce vita -- Masters of scrap -- The return of Zorro -- The belated feeding of bees -- Unripe -- Neon over the Jupiter.…”

Fabricating consumers : the sewing machine in modern Japan by Gordon, Andrew, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…War machines at home -- Mechanical phoenix -- A nation of dressmakers.…”
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Art of textile designing by Martin, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; Introduction; Yarn; Weaving; Knitting; Crochet; Types of Knot; Tailor; Wool; Linen; Silk; Suit (clothing); Coat (clothing); Trousers; Dressmaker; Types of Fabric; Loom; Knitting Needle; Crochet Hook, Dye and Braid; Embroidery; Starch.…”
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Fashioning spaces : mode and modernity in late nineteenth-century Paris / Mode and modernity in late nineteenth-century Paris by Brevik-Zender, Heidi, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part One: The Staircase -- Fashioning the Commune Barricade: Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames -- Ups and Downs, Surface and Spectacle: Rachilde, Maupassant, and Daudet -- Part Two: The Antechamber -- Waiting for Change: Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames and Nana -- Maupassant, Transformation, and the Unexotic Exotic -- Part Three: The Fashion Atelier -- Places and Spaces of Haute Couture: Feydeau's Tailleur pour dames and Zola's La Curée -- A Woman's Work(space): Dressmaking Ateliers in Huysmans's En Ménage and Rachilde's Late-Century Novels -- Epilogue.…”
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The life stories of undistinguished Americans, as told by themselves

Table of Contents: “…The life story of a Lithuanian -- Polish sweatshop girl -- Italian bootblack -- Greek peddler -- Swedish farmer -- French dressmaker -- German nurse girl -- Irish cook -- Farmer's wife -- Itinerant minister -- Negro peon -- Indian -- Igorrote chief -- Syrian -- Japanese servant -- Chinaman -- Florida sponge fisherman -- Hungarian peon -- Southern white woman -- Southern colored woman -- A Northern Negro's autobiography -- Leaves from the mental portfolio of a Eurasian -- Story of two moonshiners -- Experiences of a chorus girl -- Autobiography of a football player -- Confessions of a woman professor -- Story of the waitress.…”
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Believe What You Can : Poems. by Harshman, Marc

Table of Contents: “…I; Yew Piney Mountain; Coal Country; Learning to Read; Return Ticket; Holding On; Worries; Dreaming the Farm; Grandmother at the Dressmakers'; Somewhere; Postcard; Seven League Boots; Aunt Helen; II; Evidence; Finding the Lost; How We Go Missing; Carrion Chance; Where No One Else Can Go; Pietà; A Moon Somewhere Else; Pink Ladies; Where They Can't Find Us; III; Not Quite Haphazardly; These; Fucked; The Innocent; Time Traveler in Greenville, Ohio; Broken; Not with a Bang; Anti-Monotony; Normal; Vehicular; IV; It Was Told; Cold Morning; Stone; Winter into Spring; Late September.…”
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Ruth. by Gaskell, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Title; Contents; Chapter I -- The Dressmaker's Apprentice at Work; Chapter II -- Ruth Goes to the Shire- Hall; Chapter III -- Sunday at Mrs Mason's; Chapter IV -- Treading in Perilous Places; Chapter V -- In North Wales; Chapter VI -- Troubles Gather About Ruth; Chapter VII -- The Crisis-- Watching and Waiting; Chapter VIII -- Mrs Bellingham "Does the Thing Handsomely"; Chapter IX -- The Storm-Spirit Subdued; Chapter X -- A Note and the Answer; Chapter XI -- Thurstan and Faith Benson; Chapter XII -- Losing Sight of the Welsh Mountains; Chapter XIII -- The Dissenting Minister's Household.…”
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The infamous Harry Hayward : a true account of murder and mesmerism in gilded age Minneapolis by Peters, Shawn Francis, 1966-

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The Heinemann book of Caribbean poetry

Table of Contents: “…English girl eats her first mango ; By all means bless ; Pan recipe / John Agard (Guyana) -- Old talk, or West Indian history ; Getting there ; The carpenter's complaint / Edward Baugh (Jamaica) -- Home sickness ; Jamaica oman ; Love letter / Louise Bennett (Jamaica) -- It's me man ; Fantasy of an African boy ; Lucy's letter ; One / James Berry (Jamaica) -- Miss Own ; Xango ; Red rising ; Naima / Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) -- Dreamer ; Natural hight ; Lovin wasn easy / Jean Binta Breeze (Jamaica) -- Rilke ; Words ; Song for a tourist / Wayne Brown (Trinidad and Tobago) -- The dreamtime lives again ; Tiho, the Carib / Jan Carew (Guyana) -- Bitter wood ; A mouth is always muzzled ; After one year ; Childhood of a voice ; In a small city at dusk ; Bent ; Being always / Martin Carter (Guyana) -- Paradise ; How to organise a successful small business / Brian Chan (Guyana) -- Letters from home / Fausin Charles (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Soucouyant / LeRoy Clarke (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Because the dawn breaks ; Trapped / Merle Collins (Grenada) -- City blues / Christine Craig (Jamaica) -- The husband ; Dubious foreigner ; Patriot / Cyril Dabydeen (Guyana) -- Catching crabs ; Coolie mother ; Coolie son ; Miranda / David Dabydeen (Guyana) -- Mama Dot's treatise ; Airy Hall's exits ; The cow perseverance / Fred D'Aguiar (Guyana) -- Horses ; The growing tip ; Learner ; The leaf in his ear / Mahadai Das (Guyana) -- Mother Jackson murders the moon ; After the fall ; Tricks of the trade / Gloria Escoffery (Jamaica) -- Epitaph ; This tree my time keeper / John Figueroa (Jamaica) -- Lala : the dressmaker ; Aux Leon ... women / Honor Ford-Smith (Jamaica) -- Gasparillo remembered ; First Friday bell ; Little rosebud girl / Anson Gonzalez (Trinidad and Tobago)…”

Fashion School Survival Guide by Mbonu, Ezinma

Table of Contents: “…Get involved; 51. Always remove dressmaking pins; 52. Avoid too many black and white photocopies; 53. …”
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The fashion reader

Table of Contents: “…From haute couture to the street : When Worth was king / Anne Hollander ; The dressmaking world / Thèrése Bonney and Louise Bonney ; Torontonian taste in couture / Alexandra Palmer ; Trickle down, bubble up / Ted Polhemus ; Secondhand dresses and the role of the ragmarket / Angela McRobbie ; Punks and pirates: the Costiff collection of Vivienne Westwood / Sonnet Stanfill ; Japanese street fashion: the urge to be seen and to be heard / Yuniya Kawamura -- Part XII. …”

Framing our past : Canadian women's history in the twentieth century

Table of Contents: “…McCullough -- Sidebar: depression years -- Sidebar: Pay Equity -- Vignette: An oral history Case study -- A Barnardo Girl becomes a servant an Glanmore / Christine Zaporzan -- Bring "Domestics" to Canada: A study of immigration propaganda / Ellen Schienberg -- Women in the Newfoundland Fishery / Miriam Wright -- Vignette: Madeleine Constant, leader in the pasta industry / Lise Bre*mault -- Creative ability and business sense: The Millinery trade in Ontario / Christina Bates -- Our Mothers' patterns: sewing and dressmaking in the Japanese-Canadian community / Susan Michi Sirovyak -- Federica and Angelina: postwar Italian-Canadian couturiers in Toronto / Alexandra Palmer -- Fabrications: clothing, generations, and stitching together the history we live / Kathryn Church -- The telephone operator: from"information central" to endangered species / Caroline Martel (translated by Rosemary Cover).…”
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Framing our past : Canadian women's history in the twentieth century

Table of Contents: “…McCullough -- Sidebar: depression years -- Sidebar: Pay Equity -- Vignette: An oral history Case study -- A Barnardo Girl becomes a servant an Glanmore / Christine Zaporzan -- Bring "Domestics" to Canada: A study of immigration propaganda / Ellen Schienberg -- Women in the Newfoundland Fishery / Miriam Wright -- Vignette: Madeleine Constant, leader in the pasta industry / Lise Bre*mault -- Creative ability and business sense: The Millinery trade in Ontario / Christina Bates -- Our Mothers' patterns: sewing and dressmaking in the Japanese-Canadian community / Susan Michi Sirovyak -- Federica and Angelina: postwar Italian-Canadian couturiers in Toronto / Alexandra Palmer -- Fabrications: clothing, generations, and stitching together the history we live / Kathryn Church -- The telephone operator: from"information central" to endangered species / Caroline Martel (translated by Rosemary Cover).…”
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Videofashion collections.

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