The new tutorial is a clean-up and re-write of my blog entires on the subject much earlier this year. The photos are the same, but I made some major changes to the text so it will be clearer. I had not read through the blog since writing it, and was both embarrassed and amused with my late-night lack of grammar and clarity.

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Commissions are a bit slow at the moment, so I have had time to do up a few tutorials. Yesterday and today I finished up three related tutorials. They are all posted to my web site.

How to Make a Basic, Two-Layer Coutil CorsetThe most basic kind of corset I make is a two-layer, plain coutil corset, using vertical panel piecing. This tutorial ( Read more... )

Two-part tutorial, formally compiled and posted to my web site. It follows the same photos and detailing as the blog I posted here on LJ some months back.

How to Make a Mesh Corset Using Sport Mesh - Part 1
How to Make a Mesh Corset Using Sport Mesh - Part 2This tutorial demonstrates in detail how to make an underbust or waist cincher Victorian ( Read more... )

I finally finished the custom tight-lacing, black double-satin ribbon corset, and the blog series detailing its construction ( Read more... )

One of my current orders is for an 1880's style overbust corset, to have a cream silk cover and blue flossing and embroidery. It's for under a wedding dress ( Read more... )

This is the final post regarding the construction of the mesh corset. I finished it yesterday, but didn't take the final photos until this morning.

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I have decided that I will need to make another detailed photo-journal of making a mesh corset when I make one in a lighter color. The black is far too difficult to photograph clearly. I am very sorry if it's hard to see what is going on in some of the photos ( Read more... )

I did not take detailed pictures of the flossing process. Suffice it to say, I used the same upholstery thread as for the contrast stitching.

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After sewing together all the panels of the corset, this is what it looks like.


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I finally cut all the pieces of the mesh corset yesterday, and started sewing today. Part of the delay was time spent in contemplation of how best to piece the corset. A couple weeks ago I drew up the pattern at scale as though it was going to be a normal underbust corset, and waited for the mesh fabric (a heavy-duty sport and scuba diving mesh) ( Read more... )