Free Articles, Patterns and Instructions on MaraRiley.net:

How to Draft an 18th Century Shift

How to Make a Pair of 18th Century Stays

Notes on 18th Century Knitting

17th / 18th Century Common Stockings (notes)

Chart for 18th Century Stockings

Shortgowns (includes notes on drafting your own)





Other sources of online patterns and instructions:

17th c. costume on ReconstructingHistory.com

18th c. costume on ReconstructingHistory.com

18th c. Patterns, Hairstyles etc. on marquise.de (in German)

Battle Road Clothing & Accoutrements: clothing & other information for a late 18th c. impression

Compagnie des 100 Associes -- interesting articles (in French) on French colonial sabots and corsets blanc

How to Make an Elizabethan Corset (can be modified for 18th c. wear; see instructions above)

Men's shirts (16th-18th c.), women's 16th-17th c. shifts, at fabrics-store.com

NWTA patterns page

Pattern for knitting a Monmouth Cap

Commerical patterns can be found online at:

Burnley & Trowbridge

Fig Leaf Patterns

Five Rivers -- carries a wide variety of patterns

Jas. Townsend & Son, Inc. -- also sells some items for early 19th c. and Rendezvous impressions, so know what you're looking for before buying

Kannik's Korner

La Fleur de Lyse -- patterns for 18th c. French colonial impressions

Past Patterns -- has a new 1796 gown pattern

ReconstructingHistory -- wide range of period pattern, multiple sizes per pattern

Smoke & Fire -- sells items ranging for impressions ranging from Medieval through Civil War