Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages
Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages is a costume and ornament survey published in London by William Pickering in 1843, compiled by Henry Shaw for antiquarian and decorative-arts readers. Its plates show medieval metalwork, textile patterns and canopies rendered in flat colour with careful outline. A designer could take from them the gilt ornament, geometric banding and pattern repeats that suit historical or period-styled work.
