CORSET MAKING SUPPLIES: Corset Supplies, Corset Patterns, Corset Boning and more at great prices! Corsetry's Journal. Methods of Corset Lacing. Lacing Your Corset Once your grommets or eyelets are made and your corset is completed you are ready to lace up your corset. There are many different ways to lace up a corset, but they all work on the same idea. A cord is passed through a ring or eyelet and used to hold the two edges of the corset together. What type of lacing you use depends on many things: how historically authentic you want your corset to be, whether it has a front opening or not, how often you want to re-tighten your laces, whether you want your lacing even down the entire corset or you want a tighter pull in one area such as the waist, and whether or not anyone will be around to assist you in lacing up your corset. Some of these factors point only to one form of lacing, while some just help to eliminate kinds. Most beginners will try to lace their corset with a style I call shoe lacing.
Everyone knows how to do it; it’s how we lace tennis shoes. An easy variation on shoe lacing is cross lacing. . . .