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Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Summer Dissertation Support Sessions
Want to get a head start on your dissertation? Come along to our Summer Dissertation Support Sessions!
The Library and Study Zone are joining forces to put on sessions to teach you how to find resources, read and take take notes, reference and use theory!
The Library and Study Zone are joining forces to put on sessions to teach you how to find resources, read and take take notes, reference and use theory!
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
Harvard Referencing Sessions!
Harvard Referencing Help!
Dear 3rd year students,
As the dissertation deadline looms, the library are offering help with Harvard referencing.
From Monday the 15th of January and all of next week, Donna and Emily will be offering sessions to check over your referencing.
We welcome drop-ins, however to ensure that we can see as manystudents as possible it is advisable to book a session by emailing library@pca.ac.uk
As the dissertation deadline looms, the library are offering help with Harvard referencing.
From Monday the 15th of January and all of next week, Donna and Emily will be offering sessions to check over your referencing.
We welcome drop-ins, however to ensure that we can see as manystudents as possible it is advisable to book a session by emailing library@pca.ac.uk
Monday, 23 October 2017
Research Week Sessions Happening Today!
Sessions take place at 10am and 2pm.
We look forward to seeing you!
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Spooky New Titles.
The library has taken stock of several spooky new titles and put on a ghoulish display to celebrate Halloween! We have also acquired some new books on witchcraft and magic.
The art of horror : an illustrated history / edited by Stephen Jones ; foreword by Neil Gaiman. (2015)
Amazingly, there has never been a book quite like The Art of Horror- a celebration of frightful images, compiled and presented by some of the genre's most respected names. While acknowledging the beginnings of horror-related art in legends and folk tales, the focus of the book is on how the genre has presented itself to the world since the creations of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley first became part of the public consciousness in the 19th century. It's all here: from early engravings-via dust jackets, book illustrations, pulp magazines, movie posters, comic books, and paintings-to today's artists working entirely in the digital realm. Editor Stephen Jones and his stellar team of contributors have sourced visuals from archives and private collections (including their own) worldwide, ensuring an unprecedented selection that is accessible to those discovering the genre, while also including many images that will be rare and unfamiliar to even the most committed fan. From the shockingly lurid to the hauntingly beautiful-including images of vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, demons, serial killers, alien invaders, and more-every aspect of the genre is represented in ten themed chapters. Quotes from artists/illustrators, and a selection from writers and filmmakers, are featured throughout.
The Krampus and the old, dark Christmas : roots and rebirth of the folkloric devil by Al Ridenour. (2016)
With the appearance of the demonic Christmas character Krampus in contemporary Hollywood movies, television shows, advertisements, and greeting cards, medieval folklore has now been revisited in American culture. Krampus-related events and parades occur both in North America and Europe, and they are an ever-growing phenomenon.
Though the Krampus figure has once again become iconic, not much can be found about its history and meaning, thus calling for a book like Al Ridenour's The Krampus: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil. With Krampus's wild, graphic history, Feral House has hired the awarded designer Sean Tejaratchi to take on Ridenour's book about this ever-so-curious figure.
Al Ridenour has lectured on Krampus at the Goethe Institutes in Los Angeles. He became somewhat of an internet phenomenon himself due to the hilarious hijinks he coordinated with the controversial Cacophony Societies.
The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic by Christopher Dell. (2016)
From the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts, the Bible, Judaism and Islam. Secret words, spells and incantations lie at the heart of every mythological tradition. Today, magic means many things: contemporary Wicca is practised widely as a modern pagan religion in Europe and the US; ‘magic’ also evokes the cathartic rituals of Chaos magic, but stretches to include the non-spiritual, rapid-fire sleight of hand performed by slick stage magicians who fill vast arenas.
The Occult, Witchcraft and Magic is packed with authoritative text and a huge and inspired selection of images, chosen from unusual and hidden sources. The material is presented in 100 entries, and includes some of the best-known representations of magic and the occult from around the world.
The Occult, Witchcraft and Magic is packed with authoritative text and a huge and inspired selection of images, chosen from unusual and hidden sources. The material is presented in 100 entries, and includes some of the best-known representations of magic and the occult from around the world.
The Little Book of Witchcraft by Astrid Carvel. (2017)
Are you in need of a little magic to entice love into your life?
Maybe someone you know could benefit from a good-luck spell?
Or perhaps you want to feel more in control of your destiny?
The Little Book of Witchcraft uncovers the mysteries of this ancient art and shows you how to tap into the positive natural energies of the cosmos to release your inner power. Learn about different kinds of witchcraft and its fascinating history, its symbolism and the building blocks of Wicca, and how to perform simple spells to attract good energy, luck, love, health and happiness.
Maybe someone you know could benefit from a good-luck spell?
Or perhaps you want to feel more in control of your destiny?
The Little Book of Witchcraft uncovers the mysteries of this ancient art and shows you how to tap into the positive natural energies of the cosmos to release your inner power. Learn about different kinds of witchcraft and its fascinating history, its symbolism and the building blocks of Wicca, and how to perform simple spells to attract good energy, luck, love, health and happiness.
Monday, 9 October 2017
Black History Month.
To celebrate Black History Month this October, the library has put on a display of books and films.
Mandela : long walk to freedom / director, Justin Chadwick ; writer, William Nicholson. (2014)
791.4372 MAN
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom celebrates Nelson Mandela's extraordinary journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his election as President of South Africa. It explores the Mandela unknown to most of the world - the lover of fancy cars, a lady's man, the boxing enthusiast and playboy, the skillful lawyer and a freedom fighter. The film is an intimate portrait of the making of a modern icon.
Moonlight
791.4372 MOO
Nominated for 8 Academy Awards and 4 BAFTA’s including Best Picture and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Naomie Harris, Moonlight is a timeless story of human connection and self-discovery. The film chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami.
Hidden Figures
791.4372 HID
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
Mandela : long walk to freedom / director, Justin Chadwick ; writer, William Nicholson. (2014)
791.4372 MAN
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom celebrates Nelson Mandela's extraordinary journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his election as President of South Africa. It explores the Mandela unknown to most of the world - the lover of fancy cars, a lady's man, the boxing enthusiast and playboy, the skillful lawyer and a freedom fighter. The film is an intimate portrait of the making of a modern icon.
Moonlight791.4372 MOO
Nominated for 8 Academy Awards and 4 BAFTA’s including Best Picture and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Naomie Harris, Moonlight is a timeless story of human connection and self-discovery. The film chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami.
Hidden Figures791.4372 HID
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
New Fashion Books.
Tudor Fashion : Dress at Court.
The captivating story of Tudor dress, its construction and symbolism, and the people who made and wore it
This book presents new information about the fashions of the Tudor dynasty, offering fresh insight into their social and political milieu. Histories of Kings and Queens complement stories of unsung dressmakers, laundresses, and officials charged with maintaining and transporting the immense Tudor wardrobes from palace to palace. Evidence from rare surviving garments and textiles, original documents, fine and decorative art, and archaeological findings enhance our understanding of the Tudors and their courts. Handsomely illustrated, this sumptuous book contextualises Tudor dress within the buildings in which it was worn and fills in gaps in our knowledge of the period and its fascinating historical figures.
Eleri Lynn
This book presents new information about the fashions of the Tudor dynasty, offering fresh insight into their social and political milieu. Histories of Kings and Queens complement stories of unsung dressmakers, laundresses, and officials charged with maintaining and transporting the immense Tudor wardrobes from palace to palace. Evidence from rare surviving garments and textiles, original documents, fine and decorative art, and archaeological findings enhance our understanding of the Tudors and their courts. Handsomely illustrated, this sumptuous book contextualises Tudor dress within the buildings in which it was worn and fills in gaps in our knowledge of the period and its fascinating historical figures.
Ted Polhemus, Lynn Procter.
Exploring adornment and dress from an anthropological perspective - a classic text from 1978 revised with a new introduction and postscript for the 21 century.
Clive Hallett and Amanda Johnston (2014)
Fabric For Fashion: The Complete Guide is the only book specifically for fashion designers to explain the behaviour and properties of different fabrics. Fashion design is largely determined by how the fabrics work, move, feel and look. The most successful fashion designers are those who understand their materials, who match design skill with technical knowledge. This book bridges that gap by providing a mix of practical information and industry vocabulary, visually examining generic fabric types, discussing the characteristics of fabrics and showing how to exploit materials to push the boundaries of design. With stunning colour photographs that show how fashion designers, both past and present, have worked with fabrics, the book's prime objective is to stimulate creative exploration of the relationship of fabrics to fashion.
Friday, 30 September 2016
If you liked "This is Now: Film and Video after Punk (1978-85) check out the books which influenced the Artists
As you may be aware, The
Gallery is hosting This is Now: Film and Video After Punk
(1978-85), which was opened last week by exhibition curator
Nicole Yip, Director of LUX Scotland.
As a direct result of the exhibition,
the Library has purchased a number of books which highly influenced the work of
the Artists on display. The books are available to borrow from the Library.
"While the eyes may
lead to the soul, the mouth exposes the vitality of the body. Examining the
movements of the mouth, or what LaBelle terms "micro-oralities,"
Lexicon of the Mouth considers the relation of voice and mouth, suggesting that
the importance of voicing is inextricably bound to the exertions of the oral.
Laughter, whispering, singing, burping and self-talk, among many others,
feature as choreographies by which to gauge the exchange of self and
surrounding. LaBelle argues for a more attentive view onto voice by expanding
appreciation for how whistling links us to animals, coughing ruptures all
possibility for speech, and the inner voice, or "unvoice", operates
as a shadow-body. Subsequently, assumptions around voice are unsettled, reminding
discourses surrounding the performativity of the body, and the politics of
speech, of the acts of the tongue, the lips and the glottis as primary
negotiations between interior and exterior"-
A groundbreaking
contribution to debates on women's oppression and consciousness, and the
connections between socialism and feminism. Examining feminist consciousness
from various vantage points - social, sexual, cultural and economic - Sheila
Rowbotham identifies the social conditions under which it developed, showing
how the roles women take on within the capitalist economy have shaped ideas
about family and sexuality.
In this first
installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and
sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music,
Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy
and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the
historical context of the post-World War II era. Neither strictly
chronological, or exclusively a history, Into the Maelstrom investigates a wide
range of improvisational tendencies: from surrealist automatism to
stream-of-consciousness in literature and vocalization; from the free music of
Percy Grainger to the free improvising groups emerging out of the early 1960s
(Group Ongaku, Nuova Consonanza, MEV, AMM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble); and
from free jazz to the strands of free improvisation that sought to distance
itself from jazz. In exploring the diverse ways in which spontaneity became a
core value in the early twentieth century as well as free improvisation's
connection to both 1960s rock (The Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd) and the era of
post-Cagean indeterminacy in composition, Toop provides a definitive and
all-encompassing exploration of free improvisation up to 1970, ending with the
late 1960s international developments of free music from Roscoe Mitchell in
Chicago, Peter Brotzmann in Berlin and Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg in
Amsterdam.
This is a superb
collection of interviews with some of the most significant and influential
names in art, architecture, film, music, history, literature and philosophy
from the 20th and 21st centuries. Since 1993, renowned curator, writer,
cultural instigator, professional conversationalist - and currently Co-director
of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the
Serpentine Gallery in London - Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting
interviews with some of the most significant architects, artists, filmmakers,
historians, musicians, philosophers, and writers of the 20th and 21st
centuries. "Interviews Volume 2" brings together 70 interviews, taken
from an archive of nearly 2,000 hours of recordings that reveal an intellectual
geology of the last 100 years. Encyclopaedic in scope and intimate in tone,
these exchanges produce an array of biographical trajectories, cultural
experiments, theoretical adventures, unrealized projects, and unknown
epiphanies.
Christine de Pizan
(c.1364 1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering
Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after
reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision
where three virtues Reason, Rectitude and Justice appear to correct this view.
They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be
defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of
female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors,
inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de
Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of
the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of
women in medieval culture. THE CITY OF LADIES provides positive images of
women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and
artists to saints. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates
and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.
En Abime explores
listening and reading as creative and critical activities driven by memory and
return, reshaped into the present. It introduces an idea of aural landscape as
a historically defined cultural experience, and contributes with previously
unexplored references to the emerging area of listening as artistic practice,
adopting an expansive approach across poetry, visual art and literature. -
poetic, incisive, grounded in politics and history yet continually pushing at
the edges of what we now consider to be sound. She interrogates notions of
music and the shifting experience that is silence with a freshness and
coherence that is inspiring David Toop, Author of Ocean of Sound, Haunted
Weather and Sinister Resonance - compulsive and fast, rushing with you through
textual territories that seem spoken, direct and contemporary while being
nostalgic - invoking a past that creates the present tense. Salome Voegelin,
author of Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
Although family values
are frequently lamented for being in decline, our society continues to be
structured around the nuclear family. The Anti-Social Family dissects the
network of household, kinship and sexual relations that is the dominant family
form in advanced capitalist societies. This now classic book explores the
personal and social needs that the family ideally meets but more often denies.
Finally the authors propose a moral and political practice directed beyond the
family towards more egalitarian caring alternatives.
Sex, or the Unbearable
is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading
theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the
unbearable they don't propose that sex is unbearable, only that it unleashes
unbearable contradictions that we nonetheless struggle to bear. In Berlant and
Edelman's exchange, those terms invoke disturbances produced in encounters with
others, ourselves, and the world, disturbances that tap into threats induced by
fears of loss or rupture as well as by our hopes for repair. Through virtuoso
interpretations of works of cinema, photography, critical theory, and
literature, including Lydia Davis's story "Break It Down" (reprinted
in full here), Berlant and Edelman explore what it means to live with
negativity, with those divisions that may be irreparable. Together, they
consider how such negativity affects politics, theory, and intimately felt
encounters. But where their critical approaches differ, neither hesitates to
voice disagreement. Their very discussion-punctuated with moments of
frustration, misconstruction, anxiety, aggression, recognition, exhilaration,
and inspiration-enacts both the difficulty and the potential of encounter, the
subject of this unusual exchange between two eminent critics and close friends.
Previously unpublished
script for Robert Morris' installation "Hearing," first exhibited at
Leo Castelli Gallery in 1972.
Dan Graham's Rock My
Religion (1982--1984) is a video essay populated by punk and rock performers
(Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Eddie Cochran) and historical
figures (including Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers). It represented a coming
together of narrative voice-overs, singing and shouting voices, and jarring
sounds and overlaid texts that proposed a historical genealogy of rock music
and an ambitious thesis about the origins of North America's popular culture.
Because of its passionate embrace of underground music, its low-fi aesthetics,
interest in politics, and liberal approach to historiography, the video has
become a landmark work in the history of contemporary moving image and art; but
it has remained, possibly for the same reasons, one of Graham's least written
about works--underappreciated and possibly misunderstood by the critics who
otherwise celebrate him. This illustrated study of Graham's groundbreaking work
fills that critical gap. Kodwo Eshun examines Rock My Religion not only in
terms of contemporary art and Graham's wider body of work but also as part of
the broader culture of the time. He explores the relationship between Graham
and New York's underground music scene of the 1980s, connecting the artistic
methods of the No Wave bands--especially their group dynamics and relationship
to the audience--and Rock My Religion's treatment of working class identity and
culture.
Little Labors is a
slanted, enchanted literary miscellany. Varying in length from just a sentence
or paragraph to a several-page story or essay, Galchen's puzzle pieces assemble
into a shining, unpredictable, mordant picture of the ordinary-extraordinary nature
of babies and literature. Anecdotal or analytic, each part opens up an odd and
tender world of wonder.
This is Now: Film and Video After Punk (1978-85), which runs
until Wednesday 26 October, also encompasses a programme of free talks and film
screenings that are listed on the listed on the website. Booking for these
events is recommended.Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Library News & New Books with Costume Production and Associated Crafts in mind
The Library has been very busy over the summer installing
a New Library Management System. This has allowed the Library to re-look at
some of its policies in the hope to improve its services to users.
NEW LOAN ENTITLEMENTS:
All students are now entitled to borrow up to 10 items at
any one time. Laptops, Headphones & Visual Rulers are available to use in the Library.
AVOID OVERDUE
FINES:
2 days prior to the item being due back to the library
you will receive an email. This is to remind you about your items on loan and
that you need to return the items or renew them. If you would like to keep
using them, please click on the blue web-link. This will take you straight to
your Library account where you can click on a renew button to renew your
library loans. You can do this up to five times before you have to physically
bring to item into the Library to renew. From your Library Account page you can
also search the Library catalogue.
Hopefully the new e-mail alert system will help you avoid overdue
Library Fines
If you need help logging into your Library account,
searching the Library Catalogue or reserving books please ask at the Library
counter; and we will be happy to help.
Equally if you need help in accessing the Library’s databases please
just ask at the Library Counter
NEW LIBRARY STUDY AREAS:
The Library’s space has been slightly re-organised, in
addition to the main Library there are now two quiet study rooms; one is for
complete silent study and the other is for quiet study, where quiet
conversation will be allowed.
Click HERE to explore the new look Library catalogue.
NEW LIBRARY BOOKS FOR COSTUME PRODUCTION
& ASSOCIATED CRAFTS
Authoritative and
wide-ranging, this absorbing account of the history of theatre draws on the
latest scholarly research to describe and celebrate theatre's greatest
achievements over 4,500 years, from festival performances in ancient Egypt to
international multicultural theatre in the late twentieth century. Written by a
team of distinguished authors and illustrated throughout, this is an essential
source of reference for students, teachers, theatre professionals, and the
theatre-goer alike.
A revised and updated version of Modern British
Drama, 1890-1990, now covering the whole twentieth century, this was the first
one-volume analysis of English playwriting to cover the most exciting and
productive period in British Theatre from its inception to today. Through
detailed discussions of major dramatists and plays, Innes traces the evolution
of modernism from Bernard Shaw to Patrick Marber and Sarah Kane, and theatrical
developments over the whole century. Includes information on the social and political
environment surrounding the plays, first productions, and critical reception,
plus chronology, illustrations from key performances, lists of playwrights and
works, and selective bibliographies. An invaluable guide for students,
theatre-goers and theatre historians.
Character Costume Figure Drawing will develop your drawing skills to improve
your renderings. Not only is this book gorgeous and inspirational, but these
comprehensive visual images carefully illustrate--step-by-step--how to
successfully render dynamic characters with personality and life. This book
presents drawing instruction with detailed breakdowns of various types of
characters. Maternal? Elderly? Sassy? Sexy? It all starts with body proportion,
bone structure, body masses, facial expressions, and the hands and feet. Hats,
props, fabrics, and choice of medium are all thoroughly covered to ensure the
ability to develop convincing lifelike characters. * Includes unique three-step
drawing guides that develop the sketch from stick figure to full-blown character
* Detailed examples of how to draw faces, hands, and feet * Learn to draw
realistic fabrics in a multitude of colors and textures * NEW: Learn to draw
your character based on the time period they are from * NEW: Learn to draw
children and music/dance characters. 
Enhanced by 180 color illustrations, describes
costumes from a variety of European social classes from 1066 to 1990 and
includes coverage of hairstyles, body ornamentation, and fashion accessories.
"The Handbook of Stage Costume" is a
comprehensive guide to designing, finding and creating costumes for the stage.
Straightforward and accessible, the book aims to give you the skills and the
confidence to dress a variety of theatre productions, from a full-scale musical
to an abstract, improvised performance. Topics covered: production meetings and
the structure of a theatre company; research, ideas and aims; working to a
budget; the importance of costume to actor and audience; creating a set of
costume designs; shopping, cutting and making; costume for devised and physical
theatre production; managing the wardrobe; and technical and dress rehearsals.
The classic book on costuming is back and better than ever In the third edition
of "The Costume Technician's Handbook," Rosemary Ingham and Liz Covey
once again draw upon their many years of hands-on experience in costume design
and technology. Now they add information gleaned across the country from shop
managers and staff about their methods and supplement it with images of some of
the very best theatrical costume work to be seen today. And they continue to
provide the most complete guide to developing costumes that are personally
distinctive and artistically expressive. Ingham and Covey have been attentive
to technical developments as well to keep you up to date and ready for action.
They have expanded their book to include: two new chapters on costume shop
management and the use of computers in costume shopsinstructions for using new
materialsa substantial updated bibliographylots of brand-new color and
black-and-white photographsnew appendixes on mathematics for technicians,
health and safety standards, and much moreplus a companion website - a
continually updated source list of booksellers, useful publications and
addresses, costume societies, and shopping guide - all available at
www.heinemanndrama.com/ingham-covey.Whether you're a professional costume technician,
a student of costume design, or an adventuresome home stitcher, settle for
nothing less than the best - The Costume Technician's Handbook.
The new fifth edition of this classic guide to
clothing throughout history now extends into the second decade of the 21st
century. James Laver's classic study of clothing, from the invention of the
needle to the dawn of denim, neolithic weavers to catwalk creations, has been
updated once again to cover the latest trends, from vintage to high street chic
and the spectacular reinvention of haute couture. Featuring designers such as
Alexander McQueen and Marc Jacobs, and style leaders Kate Moss and the Duchess
of Cambridge, a new final chapter explains the forces shaping fashion today,
including Internet technology, celebrity influence, fast fashion, the recession
and global markets. With eight new pages, six new illustrations and an entirely
new final chapter, this book reclaims its position as the definitive concise
history of the subject, and remains essential reading for all students of art,
costume and fashion.
Learn how to create historically accurate
costumes for Elizabethan period productions with Elizabethan Costume Design and
Construction! Extensive coverage of a variety of costumes for both men and
women of all social classes will allow you to be prepared for any costuming
need, and step-by-step instructions will ensure you have the know-how to design
and construct your garments. Get inspired by stunning, hand-drawn renderings of
costumes used in real life productions like Mary Stuart as you're led through
the design process. Detailed instructions will allow you to bring your designs
to life and create a meticulously constructed costume.
Draping Period Costumes provides you with the
skill set you need to break away from two-dimensional patterns to drape three
dimensional costumes. The basics of draping are explained in precise detail,
followed by step-by-step draping projects from multiple historical periods.
Packed with photographs that illustrate every seam, pleat, and tuck, you'll
never be lost with this comprehensive guide. -Includes information on
measurements, necessary tools, and basic rules of draping -Covers costumes for
both men and women - Discusses appropriate period under garments and fabric
choices Let expert draper Sharon Sobel teach you all you need to know to
perfectly drape any period costume!
Whether you're in a professional or a community
theatre, part of a historical re-enactment, or teaching costume construction, a
well-made hat provides a much-needed finishing touch to a costume. Period
Reproduction Buckram Hats: The Costumer's Guidebook is your one-stop resource
for learning how to recreate historically accurate buckram hats. Each chapter
is devoted to the construction of a particular hat, beginning with a historical
image and followed by an list of the exact amount of fabric, tools, and materials
needed and the estimated time to complete the construction. Every chapter
contains a brief historical background on each hat, a pattern, step-by-step
instructions, process photographs, and ideas for altering the pattern to fit
your unique production. This book not only provides instruction for the
exacting reproduction of historic hats, but it also guides and encourages you
to alter patterns and techniques to create your own designs. The final chapters
outline general millinery principles that can be applied to almost any hat,
allowing you to customize your project.
An illustrated guide to
hat making to be used for self instruction, in the class room or as a reference
guide. All techniques (including blocking felt and straw, sewing with buckram
and wire) are listed with step by step instructions, no prior knowledge is
presumed. Illustrated in the Victorian and Edwardian style. Includes 60
patterns for historical hats drawn to scale.
Let Historical Wig Styling be your guide to creating beautiful, historically accurate hairstyles for your productions and events. Chapters begin with artwork of historic figures that influenced the look of each period. Detailed step-by-step instructions explain how to create their iconic hairstyles, illustrated by photographs showing the finished look from every angle. This volume covers hairstyles from Ancient Egypt through Biedermeier styles of the 1820s and 30s. Learn how to create hairstyles worn by -Ancient Egyptians -Ancient Grecians -Ancient Romans -Medieval maidens -Renaissance beauties -Georgian fops -and so many more! You'll also learn about the necessary supplies and styling products needed to create the perfect coif, tips for proper wig handling, and basic styling techniques useful when working with wigs or real hair. Give your production the look of authenticity with tips from this gorgeous wig styling guide!
This volume covers hairstyles from the
Victorian era through the contemporary styles of today. Learn how to create
hairstyles worn by -Victorian men and women -Gibson Girls -1920s Flappers
-1940s Pinup girls -1960s ladies -Geishas -and so many more! You'll also learn
about the necessary supplies and styling products needed to create the perfect
coif, tips for proper wig handling, and basic styling techniques useful when
working with wigs or real hair. Give your production the look of authenticity
with tips from this gorgeous wig styling guide!
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