Blue Peter corsetry

[delirium71]

I spent a rather interesting evening last night cutting out photocopies from the Jll Salen book and sellotaping them together to get a better comparison of shape. I started because I was going to use one of the stays patterns as a starting point for the next shoot - the 1790 one. It comes up tiny. I'm kicking myself for not photocopying the 1750

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[virginiadear]

How large an image do you need, giving dimensions of the sheet of paper on which it would be printed and granting that the image will take up most of the page with no more than one inch of margin all round?

[delirium71]

I've been enlarging them onto A3 at about 200% so they're full size. I'll get the rest done when I'm back at work. I probably won't get much done with it this week anyway as I'm painting rooms and also have a corset order to get on with.

I was having a break last night from cleaning and decorating and thought I'd play with the patterns. It was an interesting exercise. I've been meaning to go through them and do that for a while. But there's always something else to do!

[virginiadear]

Ah.
Well, I haven't yet had the pleasure of reading Ms. Salen's book, although it's on my Wish List, but my mind was sort of ruminating on where else you might find patterns, and Nora Waugh's corsets and crinolines came to mind.
I was also thinking about some sites where you might find some of the images---not patterns---of other corsets that you might be interested in.

[delirium71]

I've got Corsets and Crinolines too. But the beauty of the Salen book is less fiddling to get the right initial enlargment. it has lots of drawbacks as a book but the larger scale diagrams are a bonus.

[virginiadear]

Wow---I just looked back at my comment and can scarcely credit that I didn't capitalize that book title, didn't underline it or put it in quote marks or *something.*

So....you don't draft your patterns from the images of the styles presented in a book or at a commercial site?