1897 Abbie King Corset Follow Up
Jennifer brings her late Victorian corsetry project to completion, creating a corset she is very happy with and in the color of the year, to boot!
8 commentsSymington Pattern REF #32730
April describes her experience with image No.104 of the Symington Collection, right through the mockup phase of her project.
Symington Corset Pattern No.2370
This interesting pattern has alternate straight sided and curvy panels: was this done to help make sizing easy? Jennifer investigates.
Symington Pattern REF #32730, Part 2
April finishes this beautiful corset, sharing lessons she learned about alterations, welt seams, flossing & choosing the right model.
1897 Abbie King Corset
Jennifer constructs this beautiful Victorian corset in which adding, removing, or resizing panels propose to make it uniquely adjustable for fit and comfort.
Recreating an 1890s Corset, part 1
The pattern and a step-by-step guide to make this elegant corset from 1899-1900, including a new seam technique just for corsetry that negotiates curves perfectly and encases all the raw edges neatly.
Recreating an 1890s Corset, part 2
Jema takes the pattern she made from an antique here and recreates it step by step, including a lapped seam technique for one layer corsets that neatly encases all raw edges on both sides.
1898 Glove Fitting Corset, or is it? Pt 1
Thomson's Glove fitting corset: we look at an 1898 Thomson patent, advertisements, a few extant corsets and work on putting the pieces together to recreate it.
1898 Glove Fitting Corset, or is it? Pt 2
Here's more about Thomson's Patent 611,116 Glove Fitting Corset pattern and its maker, along with my method of patterning this corset from scratch.
1898 Glove Fitting Corset, or is it? Pt 3
Last month we drafted the pattern for this unusual design. This month, the step by step construction process, including how to sew some very tricky seams! Suitable for beginners.
