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Useful sites for drafting your own patterns, and using historically accurate techniques for building pieces.
"Tips and tricks" - mostly Elizabethan-specific.
Construction and lists of materials and tools.
Pattern as a .gif image - on grid background so it can be properly sized up.
Also on-site are instructions on how to make wax seals.
Basic instructions for quick'n'sleazy Goth outfit. Link to recipe for makeup.
Including brief history, pattern, and instructions.
Enter name to get simply cross-stitch pattern.
How-to for period (10th to 15th centuries) shift.
Historically-accurate clothing site with instructions for various pieces.
A simple drawstring pouch, appropriate for Regency period.
Two coats and a shirt are included, plus some Russian history.
Instructions, diagrams, and bibliography.
Basic pattern and instructions.
"Free online access to public domain sewing books" - search or browse.
Buttons and Fastenings
The Renaissance Tailor page - instructions w/illustration to make passementerie (thread-covered) buttons. These are historically
accurate to the 16th and 17th century period.
Historically accurate bound eyelets.
Includes instructions for ball buttons.
Jewelry
Besides being an online store for WigJig, this site has scads of tips, designs, and instructions.
Delphi Forum - discussions (tips, how-to's) on making wire jewelry.
Fans
Attaching lace to fan sticks.
Costumer's Manifesto page - instructions for folding fan with sticks, using cheap, bamboo fan as base.
Brief instructions at Sempstress.org.
Using card-stock and cardboard, cheap and simple, easily decorated.
A Renaissance Tailor page - excellent, precise, instructions for making two types of period fans: flag and folding. The
third fan is feathered, and one can basically follow the folding fan instructions. The title refers to the research done.
Gloves
"To fit average hands" - vintage-y pattern. I'd guess circa the fifties.
The Renaissance Tailor page - instructions on how to draft pattern and put gloves together; also has helpful links and tips.
Catsuit-building site, link to glove-making-specific page. Patterns for traditional gloves (for use with catsuits, so assume
stretchy fabric), adapted from other patterns online.
Vintage (fifties-esque) glove pattern.
The Glove Website - patterns for modern gloves and one for duelling gloves, plus other information, a gallery, and links to
glove-specific as well as other costume sites.
Instructions from Glove Website.
"Dainty summer gloves."
Discussion forum and patterns in knit and crochet. Larger site discusses various forms of needle-craft.
Vintage and newer patterns, including one particularly nice pattern for lace-knitted gauntlets, a reproduction of part of
a Bavarian costume (instructions in German and English; pattern is in PDF format, although not all on site are).
Hair and Wigs
Instructions for knotting hair/fibre onto wig-base.
The Costumer's Manifesto page - instructions for using hair pads and extensions for creating a full look without using an
entire wig.
Civil War styling.
Makeup.fx site (see also, below) - more detailed and comprehensive instructions for making wigs (daily wear, rather than theatrical).
Another Costumer's Manifesto page - instructions for making great-looking Japanese styles out of cheap Halloween wigs.
And another (!) Costumer's Manifesto page - this has instructions for making the wigs from old/vintage "wiglets"
of human hair.
Brief overview on wigmaking. Larger site is about theater and movie makeup. (Located in Gothenburg, Sweden) Online store,
too.
Cosplay.com costume discussion - wigs and hair related area.
Hand-Sewing
More from the Renaissance Tailor - instructions and diagrams.
Alternative Windows (window treatments site) - basic hand-sewing stitches.
Civil War-specific - three basic stitches for binding buttonholes.
Hats
Auld Garb Mongers site - detailed instructions for sewing a cavalier's hat.
More from the Costumer's Manifesto - felt hat using standard, craft-store felt and white glue.
Costumer's Manifesto - Edwardian buckram hat, with detailed diagrams.
Yes! From the Costumer's Manifesto - instructions and diagrams, with detailed photos.
Auld Garb Monger page - detailed instructions.
Masks
Easy, basic instructions for simple mask. Paint, decorate, and so forth, as you please.
Shoes
Basic instructions, with step-by-step photos of stitching.
PDF file - Detailed instructions for making a pair of medieval "bag shoes" with pattern and diagrams.
Detailed instructions for making "post-Medieval Construction Shoes."
I figured this would be good if one were to use leather or fabric, as well (especially if one added a decent sole to prevent
wear). Site also suggests slippers.
Instructions with bibliography and source list and links.
Medieval "arrowhead" shoes (the really pointy ones) - instructions for drafting the pattern and constructing the
shoes.
Stockings
Knitted stocking pattern - accurate to Elizabethan period.
Hand-knit (or crocheted - there is a converter available) stockings, which may not be precisely period but are rather cool,
nonetheless.
Basic stocking pattern and instructions.
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