Boning: the bane of historical costumers everywhere
To be perfectly honest, I love boning once it’s done. I love the feel of a well-done, steel-boned corset. I love the stiff, crisp look of good stays. But I really despise the process because it involves precision and I am HORRID at precision. So this post is going to be short because otherwise it will devolve into me cry-ranting about how non-exact this is and how afraid I am that it’ll turn out badly. I’m doing sort of a mash-up of bone channel layouts for a few reasons. One, I’m going to use steel bones which means I’m also going to use bone casing, and that means that I can’t put my boning right next to each other. Two, I didn’t want to do full-boned stays my first time (scary!) but I also didn’t like the sparseness of the half-boned stays below. They look good for this pattern, but a bit strange on mine. Drawing copyright: marquise.de, contouche.de, lumieres.de, manteau.de, costumebase.org, or A. Bender Between the drawing above and...