Best Tudor/Elizabethan costuming sites

other wellies

• Peronel's impressive Kentwell newbie (male and female peasant) howto site.
• Bess' Gentry site
• Sarah Thursfield author of The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments 1200-1500

and of course...
• Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies
authors of The Tudor Tailor: reconstructing 16th century dress

online goddesses

• the Indomitable Drea Leed
• Renaissance Tailor - the best how to's
• Jen Thompson's ground breaking site
• Sarah Lorraine Goodman's site - home of the best cheats and substitutions
• Missa's site

How tos

Basic sewing techniques

• make your own dress dummy
• making your own toile
• how to sew a gore/gusset
• definitive article on boning

Specific Tudor details

• eyelets
• cartridge pleating
• Aglet bible - hand sewn, glued and how to cover up plastic with metal.

Online Patterns and instructions, from the skin out!

• chemise/smock/shifts
• corded farthingale
• farthingales normal
• Breugal sleeves
• stockings - can be a plus when breaking in new shoes (covers the plasters!)
• Coif
• partlets

Yahoo Groups

• Kentwell Group
• ElizabethanClothing · 16th Century Clothing in Western Europe - Sarah, Jen, Bess and Missa all are available to answer questions from there.

the only place to get shoes!

• www.pilgrimshoes.co.uk

Online fabrics

• Whaleys of Bradford - supply undyed wool, linen and silk to the theartical trade. They also sell by the metre online. This is a link to their sales page. They deliver by their cheapest rate within the week and you can also order samples sent to you by first class.
• The Fabric Club - US site, consider costums charges as extras.
• Fabric.com - US site, consider costums charges as extras.

Sewing accessories

• Bolo Tips / Agelts currently at $2.50 per 100!!! I use the silver "smooth" ones and take blow torch and "blacken" to make them look more crass. Image on screen is actual size, but crimped the do look smaller.