General
- http://www.bayrose.org/AandS/handouts/Garb_intro.pdf
- 16th century links http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/16thlinks.htm
- http://thecostumersmanifesto.com/index.php?title=Costume_History_Sorted_by_Era Same as above but broken down into various eras.
- http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME1_INDEX.HTML This site is useful for people to look through and see the generic styles that various times and cultures had – plate 7 through to 49 are the most relevant for us.
- http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/timelinepages/timeline.htm Great timeline of costuming.
- http://www.directcon.net/wander/main.htm Useful general techniques and some Elizabethan stuff. Also sells patterns.
- http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=10 Kingdom of Atlantia’s A&S links.
- http://web.comhem.se/~u31138198/main.html
- http://www.kostym.cz/Anglicky/II_01_01.htm Extant finds
- http://www.sca.org.au/st_florians/university/library/articles-howtos/heraldry/HeraldicFrocksS.htm Heraldic frocks
- http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/15th/ 15th century Flemish
- http://www.employees.org/~cathy/tallhat.html How to make a tall hat
- http://www.willadsenfamily.org/sca/danr_as/woven-arm-ring/Woven_Wire_Trinochopoly_Arm_Ring.pdf Woven wire technique.
Elizabethan
(The Elizabethan era was a time associated with Queen Elizabeth I’s reign (1558 -1603))
- http://www.elizabethancostume.net/index.html The definitive webpage. Great resource for beginners and advanced sewers!
German
- http://frazzledfrau.glittersweet.com/ Great guide for web images.
Italian
Florentine
Venetian
- http://webspace.webring.com/people/lo/oonaghsown/index2.html Oonaghs webpage, a Lochac Costumer.
- http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/ the definitive site for 16th century Italian. A lot of Venetian, but plenty of other Italian stuff too!
General Italian
- http://www.marquise.de/en/1400/pics/index.shtml lots of artworks.
- http://home.earthlink.net/~lizjones429/farsetto.html A male Italian costume page.
- http://www.festiveattyre.com/gallery/index.html Jen’s has some good articles and galleries on her page. Check out her dress diaries.
- http://cadieux.mediumaevum.com/florentine.html A good description on how to do breast bindings.
- http://www.abcgallery.com/P/piero/piero.html More artworks.
Middle Eastern
- http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/
- http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/Costume/The%20Costumes%20Of%20Ottoman%20Women.pdf Ottoman