Many times in the past year I have been asked how to floss corsets, and my answer has always been, "By embroidering." Flossing is, quite simply, applied embroidery. If you know how to embroider, you know how to floss. Until a couple months ago, I thought that was all the explanation that was needed ( Read more... )

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.

At any rate, it should ( Read more... )

In most cases, the boning is aligned to the seams of a corset, but when using spring steel flats this is not always an option. Spiral steels can curve and twist with a boning channel, but spring steel only flexes in and out, so it must be vertical to the curves of the corset at all times. When the seams of the corset do not lay on the vertical, ( Read more... )

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... )

I finished a new article describing how to add a triangular or trapezoidal gore into a fabric panel. No one method will work for all situations, but where possible I mention alternatives while describing the process I used for one particular corset ( Read more... )

On my web site I have published a two-part demo/tutorial on how to make a Victorian overbust style corset with quilted gores. It's the same information as in series of my journals here last winter, and I compiled it into a formal 2-part article a couple weeks ago. I was originally waiting to publish until after this material was published at ( 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... )

How to Make a Double-Busk

It's a bit modified from the version I posted to LJ CorsetMakers group. Any further edits will be minor.

All the panels are together, so now I am sewing in the boning channels. The pattern for this corset is not a direct copy of any particular Victorian corset, and instead I am drawing inspiration from several different corsets. Most of them are corded, but I am not planning to use cords. The boning needs to support the full height of the corset ( Read more... )

I don't know how many parts this will have when all is said and done. If I have a chance after working on this corset, I will post a blog detailing the work done, including photos ( Read more... )