Historical Pattern Archive 2 – Thomas John Bernard

The book offers an accurate pattern of each garment on a ⅛” graph that can be used to scale the pattern up to its original size, photographs of each piece from multiple angles, instructions about how the original garment was constructed, and details on what materials were used. Capturing research and information about garments that would have otherwise stayed hidden or eventually disappeared, this volume is designed to be a tool to preserve history through documenting vintage clothing.

Written for historians, reenactors, costumer makers, and costume designers, Historical Pattern Archive 2 will enable readers to study the history behind each piece, implement their original techniques, and recreate unique garments that are both beautiful and historically accurate. Marcy Linton is an associate professor of Costume Technology and the Collection Manager of the Historic Clothing Collection at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. She has worked extensively as a first hand and draper in theaters across the country including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory, and Animal Planet.

Marcy has draped for Toni-Leslie James for the Broadway Musical Finian’s Rainbow and Anne Hould Ward at Flat Rock, NC, on The Nutcracker. Marcy is the co-author of Historical Pattern Archive: Women’s Clothing 1837–1969 (Routledge, 2019). In her role at UVA, she is currently in the process of documenting and cataloguing the approximately 3,000-piece collection ranging from 1795–1980 into the university’s online system through a research grant awarded in August 2024.

Marcy received her MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts. Thomas John Bernard is a professor of Costume Design in the department of Theatre and Dance at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He received his MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Northern Illinois University and his BA in Theatre from the University Minnesota-Minneapolis.

He has taught both costume design and technology at university level for the last thirty years, currently for Cal Poly. He has worked for many theaters across the country, including Utah Shakespeare Festival, Little Theater of the Rockies, Central Coast Shakespeare, The Guthrie Theater, and The Barn Theater, and on Phoenix Entertainment’s national tour of Gypsy and Summer Night.

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• ISBN: 9781032446158, 9781032446127, 9781003373063
• Pages: 283
• Language: English (en)

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