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The necromancer's palanquin - In which I draft my first corset pattern for someone who isn't me
Yesterday, I drafted a pattern for an underbust corset forThis is a commission for a sweetheart Victorian overbust pattern. I will also be making a gown bodice pattern to go with it, as part of a full Victorian gown creation, inspired by a court gown of Empress Elizabeth of Austria. I’ll post more details about that after I finish the bodice pattern.
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I drew up a quick sketch and some basic tips on LiveJournal in regards to corset pattern drafting. It’s not much, but for what it’s worth: I actually sat down with a chemical engineer friend to confirm the practicality of using a mathematical formula to determine the amount of hip-spring to draft into any corset.This is a simple corset underbust pattern and some instructions to go with it.
How to draft a really simple underbust corset pattern | Idle Threads
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Full Leather Corsets
These full leather corsets are individually hand crafted from the highest quality vegetable tanned heavy leather hides (3 - 3.5mm thick) - The look and feel of this quality of leather keeps improving with time, and with use it will further mould to your body shape - its the kind of leather that will last a lifetime!
Take all your lining panels 1-6 and sew them together, iron seems flat and place on to the inside of the corset, seems facing into the seems of the corset. Fold the back and front edges (1&6) in to correlate with your facings, once your happy iron flat for guidance. Sew the folded edges down onto the facing or alternatively invert the corset and lining and sew the facing to the lining (seems facing out) and then turn the corset inside out so that corset has all the right fabrics facing out, although this may be a little tricky, it may be worth pinning it first and then turning inside out to check that there is no tension and that you can actually turn it inside out!
*How to make a Corset - by a novice.
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Corset making supplies for the discerning corsetiere!
A 'busk' is a piece of corset hardware consisting of two steel stays, one with metal loops, the other with pegs over which the loops fit when closed.
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