Dressmaking is a craft of sewing fabric together to create beautiful custom garments for women - such as blouses, evening gowns, and dresses. A dressmaker is a person that takes up this form of craft as their occupation.
In this collection, you will gain vast first-hand knowledge and expertise in the field of dressmaking from the 1800's / 1900's era. There are 113 books in this DVD covering this subject alone - including basic techniques such as sewing, needlework, cutting, fitting, basting, drafting, sketching, tailoring, measuring, and much more!
Take a look at the sample pages taken from just some of these books in the collection.
All of the book titles that are included in this DVD are listed as follows:
A complete course in dressmaking (1922)
A self-teaching dress making system (1857)
A system for cutting ladies garments (1883)
Alterations and how to make them (1918)
Art in dress (1922)
Baughman's advanced hints on dress cutting (1892)
Bayne's self-instruction book for dress cutting by the French glove-fitting tailor system (1883)
Casneau's guide for artistic dress cutting and making (1895)
Clothing for women; selection, design, construction; a practical manual for school and home (1919)
Clute's actual measurement system and key to scientific dress making .. (1891)
Coates sewing and dress making manual (1912)
Complete sewing instructions (1917)
Cutting, and fitting dresses and all inside and outside garments (1884)
Devereaux's actual measure system (1883)
Directions for cutting garments with the Davis improved square (1888)
Directions for using the New York self-instructing system and chart for cutting ladies' and misses' dresses (1889)
Domestic art in woman's education (1911)
Dress and cloak fitting made easy (1881)
Dress Fitting Made Easy (1892)
Dress making reduced to a science (1886)
Dressmakers dictionary (1916)
Dressmaking - A Manual for Schools and Colleges (1917)
Dressmaking and millinery (1916)
Dressmaking as a Trade for Women in Massachusetts (1916)
Dressmaking course (1903)
Dressmaking made easy (1919)
Dressmaking self taught in twenty complete lessons (1911)
Efficiency in clothing (1921)
Essential stitches and seams (1922)
Eugene Pecori's perfect system of cutting ladies garments (1912)
Every Lady Her Own Dressmaker (1891)
Fit-u-first dress-making & tailoring schools (1915)
Garment cutting self-taught (1889)
Garment drafting by simple rule method (1907)
Garments for Girls (1919)
Guide to dressmaking (1876)
Hecklinger's ladies' garments (1886)
Home dressmaking (1913)
Home dressmaking and the art of good dressing (c1800)
Home dressmaking made easy (1896)
Home dressmaking made easy (1903)
Home dressmaking; a complete guide to household sewing (1892)
How to Cut, Fit, and Finish a Dress (1892)
How to make over old dresses (1892)
How to sew (1904)
Instruction Book - To be Used As a Guide and Study in the Expert Course in Dressmaking (1915)
Instruction book for the French and English systems of cutting, fitting and basting (1881)
Instruction book for the Kellogg French tailor system for cutting every description of ladies' garments (1890)
Instruction book for the standard tailor system (1896)
Instruction book of Bisbee's American tailor system of dress cutting (1895)
Instruction Book - Giving Full Information for Using the Self-Adjusting Tailor System of Garment Cutting (1891)
Instruction book - designing, pattern drafting, dress making, millinery(1922)
Instructions for Using Fountain's Tailor System of Dress Cutting (1890)
Instructions in dressmaking, basting and fitting (1884)
Manual - Sewing (1919)
Manual of apparel drafting and sewing (1914)
Margaret J. Blair's system of sewing and garment drafting (1904)
Miss Leslie's lady's house-book; dress-making (1863)
Mme. Veitch-Simonds' drapery system chart (1889)
Mrs. Herbert's scientific system of dress cutting, for self-instruction (1897)
N. S. Sheifer's system of designing and grading ladies', misses' & children's garments (1908)
New Superlative System of Cutting Ladies' Garments (1901)
Pattern Making (1922)
Points on dress cutting and fitting (1890)
Practical sewing and dressmaking (1913)
Prof. M. Kaphan's kid glove-fitting system for ladies', misses', children's and gents' garments (1890)
Ratner's up-to-date method of designing; (1908)
School needlework. A course of study in sewing designed for use in schools (1893)
Schulman's system of garment cutting, coat and vest measure and adjustable trouser system (1916)
Scientific dress cutting and making (1902)
Simple garments for children (from 4 to 14) (1914)
Simplified directions for using L. B. Hale's new tailor system of French dress cutting .. (1885)
Simplified pattern cutting; a new and easy method .. (1918)
Simplified sewing (1953)
Studies in plain needlework and amateur dressmaking (1887)
Suggestions for dressmakers (1896)
T. W. Byrnes' new and improved system, with the dress-maker's model measure sheet (1882)
Text-book on domestic art, with illustrations and drafts (1911)
Textiles and Clothing (1907)
Textiles and costume design (1917)
The A B C of dress (1923)
The American designer and cutter (1915)
The American lady-tailor glove-fitting system of dress making .. (1884)
The American metrical system for cutting ladies' and children's dresses and all close fitting garments (1884)
The American System of Dressmaking (1912)
The art of dressmaking at home and in the workroom (1903)
The Diamond Garment Cutter - Instruction Book (1903)
The dictionary of needlework (1882)
The dress you wear and how to make it (1918)
The Dressmaker (1911)
The elements of modern dressmaking for the amateur and professional dressmaker (1894)
The garment cutter and ladies guide (1853)
The hand-book of dress-making (1845)
The home dressmakers' guide (1919)
The International Encyclopaedia of Scientific Tailor Principles, for all Kinds and Styles of Garment-Making (1885)
The Keif method of cutting coats and vests (1899)
The Key to Success or the Dressmakers Guide (1882)
The Kintzel dress cutting system (1896)
The Ladies' Tailor Complete Instructor (1892)
The national garment cutter book of diagrams (1888)
The new dressmaker (1921)
The original American lady tailor system (1884)
The Parisian tailor complete instructor and practical guide to ladies' tailoring (1895)
The pattern New era cutting system (1915)
The perfect dress fitter ... Complete instructions in the art of cutting all kinds of garments (1890)
The Perfect Dressmaking System (1914)
The perfection taylor system by actual measurement for ladies' and children's garments (1891)
The practical designer (1918)
The practical sketcher; a complete and practical method of sketching... garments (1915)
The practical system for drafting ladies' and children's clothing, designed for use in the public schools (1907)
The science and geometry of dress (1876)
The scientific system of dress cutting (1894)
Twentieth Century Instruction Book - Artistic Ladies' Tailor System (1902)