In 2014 this corset ended up with a broken busk, so I decided to repair the corset by creating an entirely different closure, steampunk inspired.
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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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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 machine-washable corded Regency corset is now fully assembled and grommeted.
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I give some tips for drafting a gored corset pattern which will probably be most helpful to people who already know how to draft their own basic corsets, or at least already have a vertical panel corset pattern they know fits.
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The three mock-ups are finally finished and I plan to get them in the mail tomorrow.
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My Health and Sewing Plans in the Coming Months Today I finally made some progress on the three active corset orders, cutting out all three mock-ups. The last time I was able to work on sewing was mid-November, due entirely to ongoing health problems that significantly impact my ability to perform physical tasks. I still
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This is a bespoke Victorian sweetheart overbust corset. It has a plum dupioni silk cover, lacing panel, and split metal busk. Plum Dupioni Sweetheart Core: Two layers of corset coutil Cover: Plum dupioni silk Edging: Black double-face satin ribbon Boning: 4 1/4″ flat spring steel bones, 14 1/4″ spiral steel bones Piecing: 8 panels per side Busk: 13″ metal straight double
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Newly completed red dupioni silk sweetheart overbust corset with black flossing and black edging lace.
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This corset is a remake of an earlier corset that had a serious drafting error. As long as I had to re-make it, I made some other improvements over the earlier corset. This one has a slightly smaller waistline (at the customer’s request), spiral boning around most of the body (instead of spring steel flats),
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