books about: reenactment

books about: reenactment

books:

Reenactment

Chuck Logan

Harper, 2008

A deep, quiet masterpiece
Chuck Logan is known primarily for his Phil Broker novels, but his latest offering is not one of those. SOUTH OF SHILOH is a dramatically different turn for Logan, a book that surprises with its page-by-page richness, depth and ability to transcend its genre. The ...

Setting Free the Bears

John Irving

Ballantine Books, 1997

From the beginning, a novelist of the first rank
I really can't understand the head-up-the-assedness of many of these reviews. I loved this book when I first read it and I still love it now, having just finished it again. If John Irving believes that Setting Free the Bears would not be published as a first novel ...

Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It

Dorothy Hartley

Dover Publications, 2003

a very good book to know and sew medieval costume
Even if I am french I can use this book to realize medieval costumes. The patterns are very good and the explanations quite easy.

Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments 1200-1500

Sarah Thursfield

Costume & Fashion Press, 2001

The medieval tailor's assistant
If you are seriously into re-enacting and you want to make clothes which not only look right but are historically correct too, this is the book you need. The book is very practical, with a lot of line drawings and some pictures of what the finished clothes should look ...

Medieval Celebrations: How to Plan for Holidays, Weddings, and Reenactments With Recipes, Customs, Costumes, ...

Daniel Diehl, Mark Donnelly

Stackpole Books, 2001

Planning a medieval Party?
If you are planning a Medieval Celebration of any kind this is a great book to buy. My Fiancee and I have been looking for medieval books to plan our wedding by and I stumbled across this one its been very helpful and I'm sure it will get alot of use. It has many ...

Tudor Tailor: reconstructing sixteenth- century dress

Ninya Mikhaila

Costume & Fashion Press, 2006

Love the Patterns!
If you are looking for a great book about Tudor clothing it doesn't get any better than this book. The illustrations and the patterns are really wonderful. I love this book.

Fashions of the Gilded Age, Volume 1: Undergarments, Bodices, Skirts, Overskirts, Polonaises, and Day ...

Lavolta Press, 2004

What An Excellent Book!!
The pictures and descriptions within the book are an excellent reference if you are researching and intending on recreating one of these beautiful designs. Advanced knowledge of sewing skills is a must for those who wish to recreate these (definantly not for the novice ...

After a Fashion: How to Reproduce, Restore, and Wear Vintage Styles

Frances Grimble, Deborah Kuhn

Lavolta Press, 1998

A book for use in real life
I'm a swing dancer and I love this book because it tells how to deal with vintage clothes you actually WEAR! Some books seem to think everybody who buys vintage clothes is some kind of museum. Or that they're rich and only buy perfect clothes in fancy boutiques. ...

The Voice of Fashion: 79 Turn-Of-The Century Patterns With Instructions and Fashion Plates

Lavolta Press, 1998

much like the other Frances Grimble books
This book features patterns for dresses, skirts, shirts, jackets, underclothing (etc.) for the years 1900-1906 25 (patterns) from 1900 18 from 1901 5 from 1902 16 from 1903 7 from 1904 5 from 1905 3 from 1906 This is a good book, well up to Frances Grimble's ...

Medieval Costume in England and France: The 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries

Mary G. Houston

Dover Publications, 1996

Great Period garb overview
Medieval Costume in England and France provides a great overview of the different styles of garb during the specified periods. It is divided by century, and further grouped by Royal/Religeous/Common styles. The line drawings are helpful in giving a general idea of ...

Uncivil Acts (Nancy Drew: All New Girl Detective #10)
Carolyn Keene

Aladdin, 2005

A Civil War reenactment should be fun, right? Not in our town! It feels like war fever's taken over. The tension started to build when we all chose sides. Confederate and Union sympathizers never did mix. And if that wasn't enough to heat things up, someone started to secretly dig large holes in the battlefield. Pretty odd -- and very suspicious. ...

Reliving the Civil War: A Reenactor's Handbook

Robert Lee Hadden

Stackpole Books, 1999

A must for the individual interested in Civil War reenacting
Definately a must have handbook for anyone who wants to recreate the sense of the 1860s. Excellent basic information on most aspects of the reenacting hobby. With costs exceeding $1200 to take the field in correct uniform, this is money well spent!

Reconstruction Era Fashions: 350 Sewing, Needlework, & Millinery Patterns 1867-1868

Lavolta Press, 2001

Good for the war years as well as the Reconstruction
I am a Civil War re-enactor (female) who bought Reconstruction Era Fashions because I don't believe in restricting my research to just the war years. However, I was happy to discover it also contains material useful for my Civil War impression. There is a substantial ...

Fashions of the Gilded Age, Volume 2: Evening, Bridal, Sports, Outerwear, Accessories, and Dressmaking ...

Lavolta Press, 2004

Wow! Continued
I just reviewed Volume 1, where I said the book contains a huge selection of patterns. Volume 2 focuses on patterns for evening dresses, bridal wear, sports wear, and outer wear. The chapters on accessories and trimmings contain some needlework patterns, embroidery ...

The Civil War Soldier: A Photographic Journey

Ray M. Carson

Stackpole Books, 2000

Images of Valor: Civil War Photography Revisited
Ray Carson's the Civil War Soldier: A Photographic Journey brings a fresh perspective and new treatment to a photographic subject that was defined 135 years ago by renown Civil War photographer, Matthew Brady, whose battlefield photos brought the grisly horrors of the ...