{"id":6923,"date":"2010-06-02T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2010-06-01T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T16:08:32","slug":"crafting-a-corset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6923","title":{"rendered":"Crafting a Corset"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Corset\"<\/a>Alaina Zulli, a dressmaker and costume historian who specializes in historical sewing techniques, has put up a three-part tutorial for making a corset at CRAFT:<\/p>\n

Part 1<\/a>
\nPart 2<\/a>
\nPart 3<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m sorry the series wasn’t published a month or so ago, when I was making this costume<\/a> for Shadaughter; I could have used a few pointers.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, if you’re interested in making a corset of your own, it’s actually not as difficult as you might expect. If you can sew a straight seam, you can make a corset. “Historical” patterns seem to be very popular right now, so many major pattern companies have easy-to-follow patterns and instructions for period undergarments. I used Simplicity #5726<\/a> for the corset and chemise, and except for the WTF-ness of the instructions for inserting 24 steel bones of various lengths consisting of a single, airy, “Be sure to insert the bones in the correct sleeves,”* it was actually quite straighforward.<\/p>\n

Corset hardware is a bit specialized and doesn’t seem to be readily available in the fabric stores I frequent, but I was able to find everything I needed online. I ordered from corsetmaking.com<\/a> and Lost Coast<\/a>, and both companies were great to work with.<\/p>\n

Custom corsets can be extremely expensive, but with a little patience you can create your own for a fraction of the cost.
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\n*I’m going to pray that they never start writing instructions for Ikea, since I assume they’d be, “Open box. Assemble furniture.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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