I’ve been busy working on the corded corset the past couple weeks, and am taking a breather to post the WIP photos here. It’s almost finished.
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Apparently I had not gotten around to posting all the WIP images from July to this blog.  My apologies for that.  I have not actually worked on the hybrid style fully corded corset in nearly two months, but here are a couple more images of the progress I did make at that time. Project: Fully Corded Hybrid
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The last few days I have been working on my hybrid style fully corded corset. Â The first step is to fully cord all the panels and gores. Â The strength layer is coutil, with thin cotton rope for cording, and black linen for the cover material. Â I couldn’t find yellow buttonhole thread, so I am using
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In more exciting news, for the first time in a little over three years I am working on a corset. It is a bastard hybrid of stays with stomacher, and a Victorian corset. It will be fully corded to imitate the look of fully boned stays, and I am planning for it to machine washable.
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This is a bespoke plus-sized corded regency corset, made with drill cover and coutil interlining, with padded shoulder straps, drawstring on the bust, a busk pocket, and fan lacing.
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The corded Regency corset is finished, including the fan lacing. The chemise is also finished, and the bodiced petticoat is very close to being finished. This post shows details on how the fan lacing was made.
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The machine-washable corded Regency corset is now fully assembled and grommeted.
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I worked on the corded regency corset some more yesterday. The shoulder straps are padded, the lining is attached, the busk pocket is sewn (if not yet attached), and the bottom edge has been bound.
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I made a lot of progress on the new corded regency corset Sunday. The body is now fully assembled, and all the cording has been inserted.
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This entry continues the photo description of creating a corded regency corset. I worked a couple hours a couple days last week, taking photos as I went. Today I did a lot more work, and it is now assembled and corded on the front and side panels.
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