Where would you turn for quick and easy ideas on constructing a stage costume appropriate for a Greek goddess, an Elizabethan courtier, a twentieth-century businessman? Whether you're a professional costume technician or a costume designer for an amateur theatre group, The Costumer's Handbook can help you design and construct an endless variety of stage costumes that are aesthetically pleasing, practical, and historically accurate. With detailed illustrations and step-by-step instructions, the authors show how to design, prepare, and alter original patterns and how to fit, shape, and construct stage costumes that are both attractive and versatile. Filled with time-saving theatrical sewing tips, this book reveals budget-stretching ways to make period and style alterations, demonstrates such techniques as fabric dyeing and printing, and offers valuable tips on using glue, clay, and papier mache in the costume-making process. With easy-to-follow directions for constructing a variety of costume accessories from hats, wigs, and jewelry to footwear, hosiery and armor, The Costumer's Handbook is your complete guide to developing stage costumes that are personally distinctive and artistically expressive.

The Costumer's Handbook: How to Make All Kinds of Costumes

Ingham, Rosemary

Parenting & Relationships

PRENTICE/HALL

MacMillan Publishing Company

Describes techniques for designing costumes for theatrical productions and discusses how to start a professional career in the costume design business

The Costume Designer's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers

Arts & Photography

Covey, Liz

Fashion

Prentice-Hall Books

How does a designer harness something as elusive as the human imagination to create a set that will complement and enhance a dramatic production? What steps are involved in making the jump from a script's text to an engaging imaginative stage? 
 In From Page to Stage, author Rosemary Ingham explores the relationships between text analysis, imagination, and creation. Heavily illustrated with striking examples, the book covers: 
<ul>
<li>the who, what, where, how, and (maybe) why of text analysis </li>
<li>moving from dramatic text to theatrical event </li>
<li>imagination and knowing: what imagination is and how it relates to memory </li>
<li>what happens when the designer's imagination meets the script </li>
<li>and much more. </li>
</ul> Also included are photo/interview essays, in which Ingham ultimately asks the designer "how will your interpretation affect an audience/individual/society intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and politically?"

From Page to Stage: How Theatre Designers Make Connections Between Scripts and Images

Humor & Entertainment

Heinemann Drama

The Costume Technician's Handbook is your complete guide to developing stage costumes that are personally distinctive and artistically expressive.

The Costume Technician's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Technicians

Covey, Elizabeth

Performing Arts

Newly revised and updated, The Costume Designer's Handbook is now more comprehensive than ever and is the backbone of any costume designer's library since its original publication in 1983. Features of this new edition include:   a foreword by Arvin Brown, Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre  guidance on how to read and analyze a play  plans for establishing a costume plot  insights into working with directors and other designers  resources for doing historical research  a discussion of the properties of color  sketching, drawing, and drafting techniques  an 8-page color insert  150 black-and-white photos, drawings, and charts  a complete, up-to-date reference section

Costume Designer's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers

Drama Pub

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