Today I was both in the mood, and felt mentally coherent enough to write up a tutorial. Â This particular one is years in the making, as I took all the photos intending to write this tutorial a number of years ago. Â At long last, here it is. How to Make a Floating Cover A floating
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The drab green silk overbust corset needed a new busk and closure. I entirely used materials I had on hand. It has a new brass “busk” piece. It is secured into a leather strip with rivets and leather pockets on the top and bottom. The leather is secured to the corset with more rivets. It will spiral lace closed, via the D-rings on the other side.
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Please forgive all the dust and disarray and missing images around my site. Â After the most recent update to the NextGEN plugin for WordPress, it is now completely dysfunctional, and no page where it is running will load properly. Â I have more than a thousand images loaded into NextGEN, and I must move them to
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Pink cotton eyelet fabric kimono, and pink cotton velvet corselet, both of which I sewed back in 2011 for an Asian-themed steampunk event.
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I wrote these two articles in conjunction with two presentations for panels I gave at Clockwork Alchemy 2013. They are both written with the beginner in mind.
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This tutorial will walk you through the process of making a basic, boned Victorian underbust style corset from scratch. It is written with the novice corset maker in mind, providing start-to-finish instructions using a method that is much more straightforward and forgiving of imprecision and errors than most of the methods described in my tutorials.
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The first part of that material is something I’ve been asked for time and time again, a piece on pattern drafting. This only begins to scratch the surface of the subject of corset pattern drafting, but starting from scale patterns and pattern modification is a great way to cut your teeth on the subject. By starting with a scale or other existing pattern, you don’t have to guess about shape, and can familiarize yourself with how the lines of the pattern affect the final design of the corset.
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Last night I finished re-writing my blog entries about the corded Regency corset. The formal tutorial shows the process I used to create a full-length corded Regency corset with a busk pocket and period style fan lacing.
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The bust ribbon is a small ribbon along the top of the bust which can be tightened to cinch in the top of the bust slightly, or just tied into a nice little bow for decoration. This tutorial shows the bust ribbon added to a corded Regency style corset, and I used narrow silk taffeta.
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This tutorial shows how to make a very basic busk pocket, applied to the front of a corset which does not have boning in the busk area.
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