Period: Colonial Description: In this package of our Settlement Series we offer patterns for an English Bedgown, the Annie Cap, a pocket, diagrams for a short sleeve chemise plus suggestions and notes to complete the outfit of a settler of the early years of the 19th century. Also included: instructions for neck scarf, apron and petty […]
Period: Colonial Description: Two basic short sleeve chemise patterns in one. Sizes: Women’s All Manufacturer: Country Wives
Period: Regency/Romantic Description: This pattern has been created from an original in the Wade Collection, Snowshill, at Berrington Hall, Leominster, (Hereford) and is reproduced here with the kind thanks of Althea MacKenzie, Curator. Half gowns as this were usually considered to be casual “undress” clothing for wearing at home. This gown can easily be made […]
Period: Regency/Romantic Description: This dress is patterned from an original dress dating to c. 1800 in the Sooke Regional Museum. Sizes: S, M, and Lg Manufacturer: Country Wives
Period: Colonial Description: 1784 – 1818 Five styles of workwoman’s bonnets. These bonnets are a prelude to the later sun bonnet and was commonly worn during the late 18th C and early 19th C. by Western European [ British, French ] and North American women of the lower and middle classes. Size & Fitting Info: […]
Period: Colonial Description: 1730’s – 1820’s These five styles of lappet caps were made of a variety of sturdy or delicate white cottons and linens, and worn by women of any age and of varying levels of society – [ country women, farmers, maids, and genteel ladies. ] Size & Fitting Info: Manufacturer: Country Wives
Period: Colonial Description: Our Regency caps will surprise and delight you. Caps seen frequently during the latter 18th C. and into the 19th C. and worn by lower, middle and working classes women. Size & Fitting Info: Manufacturer: Country Wives
Period: Colonial Description: Mid-18th to mid-19th C. These four caps were worn by the working poor. The originals of all these caps – all in museum collections – were made of sturdy, medium-weight cap linen. Two are extraordinarily plain, and the other two are quite basic, though you will find that View D has a […]
Period: Colonial Description: Four caps for the Upper Crust ladies to wear. These delicate caps often use more than one textile in their construction; certainly use several styles and widths of lace, including insert lace, and they seem to be one of a kind. Size & Fitting Info: Manufacturer: Country Wives
Period: Colonial Description: 1780 1810 Pattern includes five caps not found anywhere else in the interpretive community. They were taken primarily from contemporary portraits of rather up-scale women in the Eastern U.S.A., Eastern Canada and in England. Size & Fitting Info: Manufacturer: Country Wives