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Google. Products for Patterns of Time. RC711 - 1670s-1710s Stays Pattern. Patterns for late 17th century stays (corsets) based on two extant English examples. View A, based on the stays in the Museum of London are fully-boned, five piece stays featuring an optional front busk, integral shoulder straps, back laced closure, and integral tabs at the waist.

View B, based on the stays in the Victoria and Albert Museum, features a front opening, stomacher, integral waist tabs and optional sleeves. Fits busts 30½"-48" and waists 23"-41". Products for Patterns of Time. Draft your own corset (Beginners) | How to make a corset - Foundations Revealed. Perfectly fitting patterns at last! Muhahaha! One of the most frustrating challenges in corsetmaking is to get the darn thing to fit properly.

Corsets are such unforgiving, tightly fitted garments that a good one must have a perfect fit; there's no room for error. After getting frustrated with commerical patterns, you're probably starting to wonder how to draft (draw out) your own patterns from a list of measurements. Here's how, in a step-by-step format specially designed for complete beginners. (You can also play with pattern drafting a basic bodice with our equally simple (and free) Easy Pattern Drafting tutorial at our sister site.) After giving this method a try, I hope you will start to see the awesome designing and dressmaking power that drafting skills can give you. I've devised these instructions for you based on corset designs of the late 1870s. Thank you very much, the [beginner's corset drafting] tutorial is really wonderful and easy to follow, even for a beginner like me!

Antique corsets - Coronet model 803. The necromancer's palanquin - Underbust Corset Pattern Drafting Instructions. This post concerns instructions to draft a pattern to make an underbust corset that looks like this: This post is mainly for my own benefit, but I've decided to put it up here as I'm pretty sure at least two of my fList are interested in the pattern cutting gumph, and other people might also find it useful :) Disclaimer: This pattern is suitable for very curvy lasses with a narrow ribcage, a slightly squishy waist and very ample hips. I have no idea how well it will work for anyone who doesn't have the same figure as me ;) My dimensions are 29" underbust, 30.5" waist and 40.5" hips, just in case that's useful.

I'm thinking of this as an intuitive method, as it doesn't involve a lot of calculations, and it does involve a bit of guesswork. I never was very scientific with my pattern drafting. Still, this method worked really well for me, and hopefully it will work well for other people. What I wanted out of this pattern My apologies about the quality of the diagrams. Seam allowances. M4861 | Misses' Corsets | Historical. Crafting a Corset, Part 1: Getting Started. By Alaina Zulli Corset-making may seem like a job only for the professionals, but anyone who can sew a straight line on the sewing machine can do this project.

Over the course of three lessons for the next three Mondays, I will teach you all the techniques I learned as an apprentice to an historical corsetiere. In this first lesson, you’ll get your shopping list, pattern, and instructions for layout and cutting. Corsets require more materials than the average sewing project, so I recommend getting all your shopping done in one go. Farthingales has everything you’ll need, plus a great selection of fabric and patterns. You can use any crisp woven fabric for the decorative (“self”) outer layer. I am using a white damask cotton blend for the demonstration, but taffeta, satin, crepe-backed satin, duppioni, brocade, jacquard, or twill would also work. The inner (“lining”) layer should be a firmly woven cotton or cotton blend. (The image above is from the Long Island Staylace Association.) Underbust pattern tutorial « learningtofly – Katafalk.

So here it is at last, the under bust pattern tutorial! At one moment in the making of this tutorial my portable hard drive crashed and all the data for this tutorial was lost with it, I was almost done with it all it was just a matter of putting the text and the pictures together, I had a pdf version of it, on Swedish which was in one way a good thing but it was not totally finished and had a few things that needed to be fixed in the Illustrator made diagrams that were lost. It kind of killed me to loose all my data, so I kind of gave up on it all but yesterday I had some luck with the hard drive and managed to save the files needed for this tutorial. I was beyond thrilled! So I present to you all the under bust corset pattern tutorial! The biggest prejudices about corsets are that they are really uncomfortable to wear and that one cannot breath properly in them, this of course is all wrong.

The measurements needed: (or were you want the bottom part of the corset to be) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.