The 1660 schnittbuch at last!

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I regularly do narrow and broad searches for tailor manuals I know exist as they have been written about, but finally, FINALLY, I found an open access copy of “Das Schnittbuch aus Bregenz” By Ingeborg Petrascheck-Heim!

The link takes you directly to the first page of the article, but I’ve been putting these into a timeline of links with little previews than can be seen here:

https://www.thefrockchick.com/category/patterns/tailors-dressmakers/

Interestingly like a lot of these 17th/early 18thC books there are some really old cuts included.

This includes bodice cutting that looks like a tube. We are familiar with this through the Schuster book which is also a later copy of an earlier work, Petraschek-Heim refers to this in “Die Meisterstückbüeher des Schneiderhandwerks in Innsbruck.”. These also appear in Koehler’s History of Costume.

I like to be able to link to the manuscripts themselves as well as the articles written about them but it’s not always easy. So I need to check all the links of the timeline as there have been a few changes to open access in different European countries so some links may be broken or need updating.

Comments

[clothsprogs]

Well clicking through those pages turned into a happy little timesing - thanks for the link.

Teddy

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I love being able to view these side by side. What is so very cool is how they support the extant garments.
So the Mary of Hungary gown with the circular skirt is backed up by several manuscripts, the Pisa gown matches the Milanese skirts in that the back is narrower than the front while the Spanish gowns have fuller skirt backs than fronts.
I really need to get this into my pattern book but I'm so very distracted and disoriented I keep putting it off.

[clothsprogs]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you to feel well enough to get it done.

Teddy