I’ve always been intrigued by self-lacing shoes. I first saw them in Back to the Future Part II and I was blown away when Nike developed their own. But I wondered… could I put a self-lacing mechanism into a corset? In this video, I walk you through how I made a self-lacing corset. I started […]
Continue ReadingIn this third and final installment of our corset-making series, Alaina Zulli walks us through the hardware and finishing of a corset. Check back at Part 1 and Part 2 to get started! — Becky Stern
Continue ReadingBy Alaina Zulli Part 2 of our three-part series will take you through all the steps of assembling your corset. You’ll learn how to flat-line, attach the waist ribbon, and make boning channels. Don’t fret if you don’t have your boning and other corset supplies just yet — you won’t need them until Part 3. […]
Continue ReadingBy Alaina Zulli Corset-making may seem like a job only for the professionals, but anyone who can sew a straight line on the sewing machine can do this project. Over the course of three lessons for the next three Mondays, I will teach you all the techniques I learned as an apprentice to an historical […]
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