I have a series of four workshops coming up in the next month, all centered around Renaissance costuming and corset-making. In the near future this series will be followed up with a workshop on Renaissance-style hoop skirts and bum rolls, as well as workshops on how to draft and construct true Effigy-style corsets using reed boning ( Read more... )

Up to now I had been making my plain Renaissance stays with the tabs separate pieces, sewn into the body. While it worked well, it took a lot of extra time and created sometimes problematic bulk at the waistline. I have been experimenting with using integral tabs, with the idea of retaining the simple body piecing without creating tabs that were ( Read more... )

Today I finished a silk cover, fully boned, tabbed Elizabethan corset. I did not take fully detailed pictures since I was pressed for time during construction and the size of the corset made the logistics of using it as a detailed example piece difficult. Next time I make a corset like this one I plan to take detailed photos and blog about it. I ( Read more... )

I'm very sorry that it took about three months longer than I had originally anticipated, but I finally wrote a tutorial on sewing a tabbed Elizabethan corset with boning that extends into the tabs. I posted it to Fashion Students Online. If enough people would rather not read it there, I will eventually be posting it to my web site, and then can ( Read more... )