1880s coutil corset: construction
Busk inserted and constructing the body of the corset:
Starting to apply external boning channels:
Waist tape:
Steam pressing hips over a ham:
Next to the original mock-up (on the left in domestic coutil with a shorter spoonbusk):
Back before boning, binding, and grommets:
You can see how it curved up into a high back:
Pressing before next step:
Pinned loosely on mannequin to check shaping, you can see the underbusk protector strip here:
Insert picture with bad lighting that looks cool :P
Busk protector with grommet through top for lacing to keep top together nicely since I couldn’t get quite a long enough spoonbusk:
Top binding applied:
Final corset laying flat, I’ll post some on the mannequin tomorrow:
