Tudor Effigies

Finding resources for researching period clothing can be difficult. One researcher has taken a novel approach to researching and providing information regarding 16th century dress, especially the dress of the middle class.

Tudor Effigies provides a database of Church effigies as a resource for researching period clothes covering the sixteenth century. Church effigies often offer life-size details of middle class clothing which is generally absent in other resources.

Dr Jane Malcolm-Davies of the Textile Conservation Centre, Winchester School of Art, provides the research methodology that went into this project.