Costume Accessories Sites

Also:

  • Briana's Clothing Page — How to make an Italian chemise, draft a bodice pattern, make an Italian ribbon coif, and a Spanish farthingale.
  • Cheapside Hoard — Article about 16th-17th century jewelry found by excavators in 1912.
  • Cynthia Virtue's Medieval Clothing Pages — Articles about medieval clothing, hats, hair, and accessories. Includes articles by others on same.
  • Démodé Custom 18th Century Wigs Top Pick New! — Beautiful custom 18th century wigs; also restyling services available.
  • Demode: Victorian hairstyles Top Pick — A visual overview, year by year, of hairstyles of the bustle era (1870-1899). Also includes "how to" advice.
  • Dragonfly Design Studio — Carries their own line of patterns, including a pierrette costume. Also sell masks, garments, hats, makeup, hairpieces, fans, parasols, etc.
  • Dreamweaver Braiding — Hair braiding instructions.
  • Fan Circle International — Site about the history of fans, from antiquity to present day. Also collecting, books, and conservation.
  • Footwear of the Middle Ages — by Marc Carlson. "An ongoing examination of the history and development of footwear and shoemaking techniques up to the end of the Sixteenth Century."
  • Garb Index — Information on Burgundian clothing, farthingales, partlets, ruffs, paned slops, and more.
  • History of Footwear New! — Site with information about shoes from the Renaissance through the 1990"s.
  • Honourable Cordwainers' Company, The — "Promoting the study, practise, interpretation and preservation of historical shoemaking and allied trades."
  • It's Not Who You Are, It's What You Wear — Articles on historic clothing by Susan Reed, including an article on men's headdresses from 1400-1519.
  • Katerina's Stuff — Florentine gowns, man's embroidered doublet, blackwork coif, and more. Also has a diary section on headwear.
  • Lady Dionatto's Costuming in the Renaissance — History of Fans
  • Leather Mask Workshop — From Charles Sturt Univ (Australia), videos of a 10 day workshop on leather masks, given by Paolo Consiglio, a master leather mask maker and teacher from Florence, Italy.
  • Liz Jones Costume Page — Research, pictures and patterns for a Balzo (hat), Farsetto (jacket) and a beginner's guide to making shoes.
  • Lynn McMasters Top Pick — She sells patterns for late Renaissance head coverings (cauls, coifs, biggins, arming caps, etc), and hat patterns that can be used as the basis for many other hats, like her "Universal Oval Brim Straight Sides" pattern. Lots of beautiful pix of her costumes.
  • Margueries Pages — Articles ranging from Medieval to Elizabethan eras, subjects ranging from hats, hair and jewelry to clothing construction and patterns. She also has another site on Bliauts. Section on Textiles includes articles about burn tests, wool, etc
  • Practical Blackwork — All things blackwork: links to blackwork sites, books, photos, patterns, etc.
  • Rapunzel's Resource New! — Tutorials for different hairstyles for long hair.
  • Venetian Chopines — Information on chopines (high platfom shoes). Essays, pictures, bibliography, and more.
  • Worshipful Company of Glovers of London - Glove Collection — A collection of gloves from the late 16th c through present day.

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