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mala_14I was wondering about a couple construction techniques for my 1880 corset and so I did some research. What I learned by looking at lots of pics:
Lace on the top of corsets was sewn on by hand at the end of construction. This was discovered thanks to Lara Corsets as seen here and here.
Also, since I'm doing a silk brocade corset, I wanted to figure out how to bind it; twill tape, bias binding, straight grain, et c. After some careful zooming of two silk corsets on the Met site (which has several new corsets up on their collection database!), I think I've determined that these ones have binding of the fashion fabric cut on the straight of grain. Check them out here and here.
I think that's enough posting for today.
Lace on the top of corsets was sewn on by hand at the end of construction. This was discovered thanks to Lara Corsets as seen here and here.
Also, since I'm doing a silk brocade corset, I wanted to figure out how to bind it; twill tape, bias binding, straight grain, et c. After some careful zooming of two silk corsets on the Met site (which has several new corsets up on their collection database!), I think I've determined that these ones have binding of the fashion fabric cut on the straight of grain. Check them out here and here.
I think that's enough posting for today.
