The Corsetry Diaries
News, Making, Ponderings & Rants AboundRead moreWhen making a corset training corset or boned bodice, you have to decide how you’ll have the front panels.
Do You Make a Corset Open Fronted or Closed Fronted?
When making a corset training corset or boned bodice, you have to decide how you’ll have the front panels. When making a corset training corset or boned bodice, you have to decide how you’ll have the front panels. You may choose to have a front closure such as the...
The Hassle Free Way To Lace Your Corset Training Corsets
There are numerous approaches to lacing a corset but for corset training, sticking to a criss-cross technique from top to bottom is the most hassle free option. If you use the rabbit ears technique (also often called bunny ears), this makes tight-lacing even...
Need A Cooler Corset Training Corset for Summer?
Yes it’s summer and corsets aren’t designed with summer in mind. We attempt to get round it by wearing shorter corsets. Well I’m going a step further-
Making Usable Corset Patterns
When you start learning to make a corset you tend to stick to pre made shop bought patterns, and while these are great, sometimes it can be hard to find what your looking for. Little details can be altered on a pattern - the top and bottom edge shapes for example, and...
How can I Tell Quality Coutil For Corset Making?
What is Coutil? For the sake of newbie's to corset making I'd better just briefly explain what this stuff is, although I've covered this before many a time. Coutil sounds fancy but it's just a fabric designed to make a corset from. It's normally cotton...
Want to learn to make a corset?
So earlier I went through the virtues of learning how to make a corset yourself, rather than paying for someone else to do it for you. We all know that if your going to corset train seriously, then at some point your going to need to start buying custom designed...
Corset training on a budget? Swap shop bought for home made
If your just getting into waist training and need your first corset training corset, or your a serious 23/7 tight lacer who gets through a lot of corsets, your going to be looking around the internet at the various corset makers (maybe just your favourites...
Get Your Supplies Sorted for Corset Pattern Sewing
Corset Patterns I won't be covering ways to produce a corset pattern for this blog post, laughing moon are a good brand and there's an array of corset patterns on vena cava. A quick hunt on the net brings up lots more, having said this, creating your very own corset...
Corset Patterns: What Is A Gore ?
While some corset makers out there will be familiar with this term, there will be a larger number, especially amoungst the beginners, who haven't a clue what a 'Gore' is. This blog post is for you. It sounds like some sort of horror film genré but in actual fact it's...
Inspiration for your corset making
Whether its for fashion or for corset training or for both that you"ve decided to make a corset, you"ll find that sources of inspiration are everywhere. I"ll often take photos on my phone of details on items of clothing in shops that I think would look great as part...
What’s in a curve?
What's in it? The curve of a corset? Is it just luck that some girls turn into walking hourglasses when they don a corset, while others tend to get a straight up straight down effect? Or is it a case of how long you've been corset training? Well take it from me that...
My 1st Corset Pattern
A few people have asked when I started corset making, well I learnt how to make a corset around 2007 (I think), my first corset was made from one of my mothers old waistcoats! I took photos of it in 2009 at a shoot I did with some photography friends. So here is a...
Corset Pattern Construction
If your learning how to make a corset pattern, or even how to make a bodice pattern with corset boning, then you'll need a method of drafting your corset design into a pattern.There are several ways of doing this, but my favourite beginners method is the duct tape...
Three Layered Corset Designs
When your learning how to make a corset, the many methods and corset design styles can get confusing. "How many layers of material should I use when sewing my corset pattern?" Is something I get asked a lot. The three layered method for corset making is a simple one...
Corset pattern pieces
I often get asked by newbie corset makers how many corset pattern pieces a corset training pattern should have per side (because corset sewing patterns come as one half a corset and you cut one side of the corset out, then flip the pattern to cut the other). There is...
The waist corset pattern
Waist corsets (or corset belts as they're also called) are usually no more than 5-7 inches tall and place pressure purely on the waistline. They're less comfortable because of this but allow for a much greater freedom of movement than longer corsets. Not a lot of good...
Materials for making corset dresses
Yesterday we discussed a basic way to turn a corset pattern for a regular corset into a corset dress pattern. Today I'm going to go over the ideal material to make a corset dress from for best results. If your corset dress isn't intended for tight lacing you may get...
Making corset dresses
If your making a corset for corset training purposes you'll find that almost any corset pattern can be customized to use for a tight lacing corset. However, if you plan to make a corset dress you'll find it both harder to find a sewing pattern and harder to find a...
