I've only ever made 16th through 18th century stays and boned bodices, but I get silk embroidery floss and make a 4 or 8 strand braid. Phiala's String Page (http://www.stringpage.com/) has good instructions on these. I find these work excellently well, and are not too time-consuming to make.
Claire Message: 1 Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:38:45 -0700 From: "Laurie Taylor" <costume...@mazarineblue.com> Subject: [h-cost] Lacing question To: "'Historical Costume'" <h-cost...@indra.com> Message-ID: <9074088bb36e40b586e51da85c467...@laurie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Getting ready for Costume College and have a last minute issue. Could have asked this on the CGW list, but thought the larger group here might give a larger range of answers/ideas. What do you use for lacing your various types of corsets and/or stays? When I think about going to the local fabric store and buying the cotton cord that I would normally use as filling in pipings, I just can't see using it on stays, especially late 18th/early 19th century. Rattail certainly would not work either. What do you use that isn't too bulky or to hard, or too prone to slipping out of the tie? Right now, for convenience and in the interest of stash reduction, I'm using 1/8" and 1/4" silk ribbon, leftover from my last round of silk ribbon embroidery. It's not very satisfactory, but I could not figure out a good alternative. Thanks. Laurie T. Phoenix _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
