Costume Making at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The Whittaker Library supports our costumiers with a great selection of books and other resources.  Here's a link to all our costume books - a very substantial collection!  Don't hesitate to speak to our library staff if you need help sourcing books about costume-making.  Our Drama and Ballet librarian is in charge of this collection.

• Costume books at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Whittaker Library

Because  our music librarian is a keen dressmaker, she also saves useful web-links on sewing clothes, which we share with you HERE.  See if there's anything that interests you.

One for the Wardrobe Department

Now our students are leaving for the summer, presumably those associated with the Royal Conservatoire's Wardrobe department will be turning their attention to their own summer wardrobes.  So we share this, notified to Karen by a sewing friend:-

Free Sewing Patterns - So Sew Easy

Might be useful!

The Linen, the Stitch and the Wardrobe - Making an early Victorian Shift

The clever people in the University of St Andrews Library Special Collections are blogging their way through a wide range of historic 'how to' manuals.

This week, it's all about following an early 19th century dressmaking pattern and using a 19th century embroidery manual, to make a simple linen shift.

The Wardrobe Department at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland might be very interested in this, as a creative experiment.  Though I suspect busy costume makers don't have time for Victorian embroidery!!

Take a look at 52 Weeks of Historical How-To's - it's a beautiful and intriguing blog.

Costume Design and Millinery (Hatmaking)

We found costume designer Rachel Patoray's website the other day - she is interested in sewing, design and repurposing fabric.  Interesting ideas, nice pictures to inspire you.

http://www.rachaelpatoray.com/

Seventeenth century dress patterns

Alan Jones, our Drama Librarian, has been shopping in London.

I'm so excited about this book, I almost want to rush home and get my scissors out!   A new book on Seventeenth century dress patterns - probably compulsory reading for our costume designers.

More about it on Amazon.