Corset Patterns, Historic Corsets, How To Make a Corset
Are you making a bodice or a corset I ask? What’s the difference? I here you retort, well that’s the topic of this blog post, and the answer is actually quite a lot. I used to think it was all in the layers, a corset had two or more while a bodice had just...Corset Patterns, Historic Corsets, How To Make a Corset
So here’s a quick pic of what I’ve been up to today. Using the method my old corsetry tutor taught me, I’ve been using a pin wheel to prick through one of my historic corsets to copy the pattern onto some pattern paper. It’s a lot fiddlier than...Historic Corsets, How To Make a Corset
Here’s a sneak peak at some material I’ve got for my next few corsets – they’re going to be historic corsets. But that aside, I thought this was a good time to talk about fabric weights and what works best when making a corset… So what do...Historic Corsets, How To Make a Corset
A book of high fashion by Dior, this is hot off the press and a must have if you’re fashion obsessed like me. There are some nice corseted pieces as you can see here in this magazine article I came across. But the whole book is in French, so if you’re not...Historic Corsets, How To Make a Corset
First, let me explain to those new to corset making who don’t know; what bias binding is and where it goes. If you’re just learning how to make a corset, you may not have come across it yet but bias binding is the stuff that goes along the top and bottom edge of...Corset Patterns, Historic Corsets, How To Make a Corset
I have just taken some lovely photos of a set of three historic corsets I have been acquiring over the last couple of years. They will be the next set of patterns in my printable corset patterns series and I couldn’t help but share a picture of one of them with...
