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Art
European
Holbein, Hans. (1985). Holbein Portrait Drawings (Dover Art
     Library).
France
Cloulas, Ivan. (1998). Treasures of the French Renaissance.
Zerner, Henri. (2004). Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of  
     Classicism.
Near East
Ottoman Turkey
Atil, E. (1980). Turkish Art.
Roxburgh, David. (2005). Turks: A Journey of A Thousand Years, 600-1600
Costume/Textiles
Boucher,  Francois. (1987). 20,000 Years of Fashion.
Cunnington, C. Willet. (1992). The History of Underclothes.
Scott, Phillipa. (2001). The Book of Silk.
Wilcox,  R. Turner. (1958). The Mode in Costume..
European
Norris, Herbert. (2000). Ancient European Costume and Fashion.
Middle Ages
Crowfoot, Elisabeth  (2001). Textiles and Clothing: Medieval Finds
     from Excavations in London, c.1150-1450.
Houston, Mary (1996). Medieval Costume in England and France: The
     13th, 14th and 15th Centuries.
Museum of London.  (2004). Shoes and Pattens.
Newton, Stella Mary (1999). Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: a
     Study of the Years 1340-1365
Norris, Herbert. (1999). Medieval Costume and Fashion.
Thursfield, Sarah. (1999).  Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making
      Common Garments 1200-1500.
Elizabethan
Arnold, Janet. (1985). Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction
     of Clothes for Men and Women, c. 1560-1620.
Arnold, Janet. (2001). Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd.
France
Emile, Hippolyte Louis (2003). Full-color Sourcebook of French
     Fashion: 15th to 19th Centuries.
Norse
Ostergard, Else. (2004). Woven into the Earth: Textiles from
     Norse Greenland.
Spain
de Alcega, Juan. (1587). Tailor's Pattern Book.
Tudor
Norris, Herbert. (1997). Tudor Costume and Fashion.
Near and Middle East
Scarce, Jennifer. (2003). Women's Costume of the Near and
     Middle East.
Ottoman Turkey
Atil, E. (1987). The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent.
Atil, E. (1980). Turkish Art.
Palace Arts Foundation. (2001). Palace of Gold and Light: Treasures
     from the Topkapi, Istanbul.
Raby, Julian. (2002). Ipek: The Crescent and the Rose: Imperial Ottoman
     Silks and Velvets.
Roxburgh, David. (2005). Turks: A Journey of A Thousand Years, 600-1600.
Needlework
Lomny, Antonia. (2004). The Art and Craft of Goldwork: Goldwork Projects using Gold threads, beads and sequins.
Thomas, Mary. (1998). Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches.
European
Staniland, Kay. (1991). Medieval Craftsman: The Embroiderers.
Near and Middle East
Ottoman Turkey
Ellis, Marianne. (2001). Ottoman Embroidery.
Krody, Sumru Belger. (2000). Flowers of Silk and Gold: Four
     Centuries of Ottoman Embroidery.
History
Danziger, Danny. (2000). The Year 1000: What Life was Like at the Turn
     of the First Millenium.
Diamond, Jared. (1997). Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human
     Societies
England
Coss, Peter. (2000). The Lady in Medieval England.
Weir, Alison. (2001). Eleanor of Aquitane: A Life.
Tudor
Plowden,  Alison (2002). Tudor Women: Queens and Commoners.
Starkey, David. (1990). Rivals in Power: Lives and Letters of the
     Great Tudor Dynasties.
Starkey, David. (2004). Six Wives: The Queens of King Henry VIII.
Weir, Alison. (2002). Henry VIII: The King and his Court.
Weir, Alison. (1999). The Six Wives of Henry VIII.
Weir, Alison. (1997). The Children of Henry VIII.
Elizabethan
Dunn, Jane. (2004). Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens.
Starkey, David. (2001). Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne.
Weir, Alison. (1999). The Life of Elizabeth I.
France
Baumgartner, Frederic. (1995). France in the 16th Century
Norse
Fitzhugh, William. (2000). Vikings: the North Atlantic Saga.
Women's Studies
Barber, Elizabeth Wayland (1995). Women's Work: the First 20,000 years:              Women, Cloth, Society in Early Times.
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