Making 17th Century Stays - Historical Corsetry
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Published 2019-03-22
Original Extant Stays, held at the Manchester Art Gallery, lots of lovely pictures: manchesterartgallery.org/collections/search/collec…
My previous videos about this project:
Scaling up a Pattern to Life-Size • Scaling up a Pattern to Life-Size (us...
Making the Mock-Up • Making 17th Century Stays Mock-up - E...
Pattern and detailed analysis from Patterns of Fashion 5: shop.theschoolofhistoricaldress.org.uk/product/pat…
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All Comments (21)
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Busks often had carved messages on them, particularly if they were carved by someone close to the person they were intended for. One example of such a message: “To my beloved sister, and don’t you dare break this one.”
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This corset is more structured than my life will ever be.
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"As long as the two pieces are stuck together, you've done good enough." As a beginner (have literally only made one piece of clothing so far) you have no idea how happy this phrase makes me. Sometimes I stress about whether or not I'm doing something "right," but in some ways, as long as it gets the job done, and looks alright, it doesn't much matter.
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First command my dog learned was "off the fabric!" not that he listens all that much. Nice to see your pups enforce sewing breaks too.
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Wow, the amount of stitching needed to make all those small channels, remembering that the original would have all been sewn by hand. Makes you appreciate why clothes were made to last as they would have been so expensive to make at the time. A fantastic looking corset.
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I'm a 16 year old guy who has no idea how to sew yet HeRE I AM. I'm LIVING for this corset thouuugghh yeesss you did so good
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I’m just grateful that we live in a time of YouTube that people can do, record, speed up and present their mastery in video and others can admire the effort and beautiful finish. WOW such a beautiful piece of craftsmanship, art and patience. ❤️
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You and bernadette both uploaded a stay/corset video around the same time, what sorcery is this! Also your finished stays look absolutely amazing!!
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I don't know how anyone gets anything done without a nudge from a needy pup from time to time. The corset is gorgeous.
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Beautiful work! Since you aren’t backstitching/knotting the ends of those channels, you don’t need to bring the top thread to the back with a needle — you can just pull the bobbin thread from the back and it’ll pop the top thread through enough that you can grab it. I’m only mentioning it because all that needle threading! XD Also, I use my wonder clips a ton. They’re especially fun if you don’t grab one quite right and it goes FWING! across the room.
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Came for the stays, STAYED for the greys!!
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That is RIDICULOUSLY gorgeous, oh my god!! I haven't even attempted to sew anything since I was, like, 14? 15? But between Bernadette Banner's channel and this one I'm feeling the W A N T 😍
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My sewing clips are off brand.... they shall now be called pinchy crabs :)
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Love how it turned out! I've been watching a ton of your videos recently (but hadn't commented before). Your projects are all so awesome and inspiring. Btw the little clips are genetically craft clips and I use them from just about everything I sew.
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Your thread burying method has me looking like the Pikachu meme with my mouth hanging open. I'm not worthy!
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These are so beautiful. And I"m laughing at the idea of "sewing room door" as I look around my bed, which has lots of Victorian chemise pieces and very little room for sleeping.
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"Mum, I are lap pupper" Doggos probably.
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This came out beautiful. Oh, and needy greyhounds are needy. 😂. (My sister had an Italian greyhound. “They’re loving, adoring, sweet. You know, clingy.”—my sister.)
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They look so good!!! <3 Must've been something in the air that a bunch of us historical sewers finished various types of foundations garments pretty close to each other.
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Gorgeous work! You make me want to pick up sewing immediately. I want nothing more than a tailored corset and a good period appropriate gown so I can flounce around in it when the mood takes me.
