Detailed fashion guide containing illustrations and information about wedding wardrobes and etiquette from the 1880s to 1908. Also featured are authentic bridal advertisements from magazine greats such as Delineator and Ladies Home Journal. 270 illustrations plus special doll bridal wardrobe pattern pullout for 22-inch (56cm) dolls.

"Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan is the first monograph on this important African-American self-taught artist. It was written by art historian William A. Fagaly of the New Orleans Museum of Art, who knew Morgan during the last twelve years of her life. Through his stories, recorded here, Sister Gertrude Morgan lives again." "This book is the companion to the national traveling exhibit of the same name, organized by the American Folk Art Museum."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

African Masterworks in the Detroit Institute of Arts showcases eighty-eight of the museum's finest works, representing the full range of major sub-Saharan sculptural traditions during the past three centuries: figures, masks, containers, carved stools, jewelry, and musical instruments. As noted in the introductory material, almost all African art has a functional base - each sculpture's primary justification is its effectiveness as a ritual or utilitarian object. Text accompanying each photograph describes not only the circumstances, when known, of the object's creation, but also the harmonious interplay of its aesthetic features and cultural and spiritual function. The catalogue also details the rituals surrounding the religious objects and the social importance of the secular works. Organized by region, from the western Sudan to southern Africa, the book includes essays on the history of each area, as well as maps and an extensive bibliography. Michael Kan, the curator of the collection, provides a history of the museum's African art acquisitions since 1900, and the introduction by Roy Sieber traces the evolution of Western appreciation for African art, describing also the value placed on the objects by the community from which they arose.

This book pictures Victorian fashions as they appeared in chic publications of the period. Catalog reprints with detailed information and 15 authentic patterns, this volume emphasizes children's clothing. Over 235 photos.

Full of authentic pattern projects.Doll's outfit (from 1887) that has a guimpe with skirt, suspenders, Scottish hat and 1898 girl's sunbonnet. Includes 14 patterns and instructions for outfits plus how-to-dos.

Victorian ladies' fashions as seen through contemporary fashion publications dating from 1880 through 1890. Also included are 15 patterns for making a doll's outfit consisting of a frock, fur-trimmed cloak with matching bonnet and muff (fits a 23in [58cm] doll) adapted from an 1890 Delineator magazine. Over 285 photos.