During the past several months I’ve slowly been working on some medieval garb for myself and Diana. Each piece has taken me far longer to make than they would have before I became sick, but it’s felt damned nice to be creating things again, whatever the pace. I’ll post more photos of the garments as I am able to take worthy photos.
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Mid-14th century linen front lace kirtle. It has french seams; hand-worked seams along neck, front opening, and inside sleeve; and hand-worked eyelets.
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Please forgive all the dust and disarray and missing images around my site. 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. 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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Two things that come to mind when one contemplates steampunk are brass and leather, so for years I’ve been wanting to make a brass and leather bustle. I was asked to give a workshop at the Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition this past April, so I figured that was the perfect opportunity.
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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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This ensemble is a blue herringbone Elizabethan renaissance Irish dress, reenactment style. The chemise is an Irish style liene, and she is wearing a single underskirt. I drafted and created this piece in 2000, but took these pictures in February of 2013.
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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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