Making Corsets

Author: Julie Collins Brealey
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785008218
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 415

Book Description
Over the centuries, the corset has been a vital garment designed to support and shape the fashions of the day, and has progressed from being an undergarment to bold outerwear. This practical book explains the full process of making a corset with clear instruction and supporting photographs. Packed with information, it explores methods of creating modern corsets, whilst acknowledging the pioneering techniques of the past. Whatever your reason for creating a corset- be it for theatre- re-enactment or personal wear - this book is an invaluable guide to making a well-constructed, figure-flattering garment. Includes: a list of helpful tools, equipment and materials; step-by-step illustrated instructions showing how to self-draft or personalize a commercially purchased corset pattern; techniques showing how to correct an array of fitting issues to produce a well-shaped corset; a selection of corset-making methods, illustrated with photographs and, finally, imaginative approaches to decorating and personalizing corsets. There are three main projects showing the development of the patterns and construction techniques to create gorgeous corsets.

The Basics of Corset Building

Author: Linda Sparks
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429994274
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
Think of a corset as a blank canvas. Linda Sparks' The Basics of Corset Building: A Handbook for Beginners is a comprehensive guide to building your first corset, including: Section One: Tools and Materials for Corset Building Discusses the tools you'll need, plus types of steel, plastic, and textiles. Section Two: Building a Corset Everything you need to know about working with bones and busks, setting grommets and eyelets, and creating a beautifully finished corset. Section Three: Construction Techniques Covers all the steps, including making a modesty panel, making a mock-up, and building single layer, double layer, and fashion fabric corsets. Section Four: Alterations and Fit Discusses commercial corset patterns, as well as how to fit and style a corset for exactly the look you want.

Corset Cutting and Making

Author: Marion McNealy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998597713
Category : DESIGN
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
20 historical corset patterns from 1900-1922.

Corsets and Crinolines

Author: Norah Waugh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135874026
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Corsets and Crinolines is a study of the changing shapes of women's dress and how these were produced, how simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whale-bone and steel, while padding at shoulders and hips gave way to the structures of farthingales, hoops and bustles. Added are contemporary tailors and dressmakers accounts, illustrations, index, a glossary of terms and materials, appendices on the repair and manufacture of corsets and crinolines.

Corsets

Author: Velda Lauder
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408127555
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Sensuous, glamorous, flattering, alluring: a gorgeously presented book that explores corsets past and present.

Corsets

Author: Jill Salen
Publisher: Costume & Fashion Press/Quite Specific Media
ISBN: 9780896762619
Category : Corsets
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Progressing through almost two centuries of corset-making, this collection showcases a range of period pieces, from the 1750 whale-boned corsets, through the invention of the sewing machine and mass-produced corsets of the 1850s to the makeshift corsets of World War I." "Reflecting the changing fashions and attitudes of women throughout the centuries, the collection includes corsets for pregnancy, riding corsets for sportswomen and hard-wearing corsets for housemaids. There are even corsets for small children and their dolls." "Each corset features an annotated pattern, a detailed drawing and close-up photography so any historical detail can be captured accurately by the maker. Each pattern is accompanied by a brief overview that places the corset within its historical context and explains any features or alterations that are necessary for making up the patterns." "A must-have guide for anyone with an interest in fashion history, Corsets: Historical Patterns and Techniques is a treasure trove of information for fashion students, costume makers for stage and screen, reenactors and historians alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Stays and Corsets

Author: Mandy Barrington
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317700740
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 403

Book Description
Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body goes a step beyond traditional historical costuming texts by not only providing you with historical pattern diagrams and information, but by showing you how to adapt these patterns to the contemporary body shape. Using her original pattern-drafting system, author Mandy Barrington will show you how to draft a historical pattern for a modern body shape, while still retaining an accurate historical silhouette. Each pattern has been generated from an original stay, corset, or pattern taken from a historical garment. The instructions to follow these new patterns are designed to accommodate any size of female figure, allowing you to avoid extremely difficult, time consuming, and inaccurate historical pattern re-sizing Requiring only basic prior knowledge of pattern drafting, all calculations have been worked out for the costume maker and are provided in simple tables accompanied by easy-to-read, step-by-step diagrams that clearly show how the historical pattern is plotted onto the female basic block, coupled with photographs of the constructed stays and corsets.

The Express Corset Making Course

Author: Scarlett Sapsford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781634437455
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 77

Book Description
Would you love to make a corset but don't know how? Do you think Corsetry is a difficult and specialised skill that's hard to learn? Well I'm here to tell you that anyone can make a beautiful, professional looking corset, cheaply and in their spare time.This updated version of The Express Corset Making Course will guide you through everything, from where to get the best online materials and tools to exactly how to construct your corset step-by-step. Sew along in real time, and see exactly how it's done without having to interpret instructions from a book. Make your corset with me as you watch each video chapter: 1. Introduction 2. Corsetry Materials3. Cutting Out Your Pattern 4. Pattern Matching5. Inserting The Busk 6. Sewing It All Together7. Inserting The Eyelets 8. Binding The Edges9. Outro & CreditsBonus Features: Creating a Back Panel, Altering a Mock-up

Waisted Efforts

Author: Robert Doyle
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Sartorial Press Publications
ISBN: 9780968303900
Category : Corset industry
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description

Victorian Secrets

Author: Sarah A. Chrisman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1634500407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
On Sarah A. Chrisman’s twenty-ninth birthday, her husband, Gabriel, presented her with a corset. The material and the design were breathtakingly beautiful, but her mind immediately filled with unwelcome views. Although she had been in love with the Victorian era all her life, she had specifically asked her husband not to buy her a corset—ever. She’d heard how corsets affected the female body and what they represented, and she wanted none of it. However, Chrisman agreed to try on the garment . . . and found it surprisingly enjoyable. The corset, she realized, was a tool of empowerment—not oppression. After a year of wearing a corset on a daily basis, her waist had gone from thirty-two inches to twenty-two inches, she was experiencing fewer migraines, and her posture improved. She had successfully transformed her body, her dress, and her lifestyle into that of a Victorian woman—and everyone was asking about it. In Victorian Secrets, Chrisman explains how a garment from the past led to a change in not only the way she viewed herself, but also the ways she understood the major differences between the cultures of twenty-first-century and nineteenth-century America. The desire to delve further into the Victorian lifestyle provided Chrisman with new insight into issues of body image and how women, past and present, have seen and continue to see themselves.