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by Cynthia Settje
If you follow us on YouTube, you've probably already seen this video I put out a couple of weeks ago. If not, here's a bit of amusement for you all...
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by Cynthia Settje
We're excited to finally offer our synthetic whalebone tipping bits for sale. We've developed these in-house to solve the issue of quickly finishin...
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by Cynthia Settje
Hello folks!
You may have noticed that our stock is pretty low. We had so many events last year that we just could not keep up with demand--which i...
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by Cynthia Settje
Hello folks! We get a lot of questions about how to alter our corsets and stays. Did you know that a lot of our styles ARE alterable? We use our tr...
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by Cynthia Settje
Did you know that a lot of Victorian corsets were sold with pre-curved busks? Several in our own collection of extant corsets have a dramatic dishe...
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by Cynthia Settje
Part Two
This is the part that everyone asks me about--the appliqué.
The biggest problem to solve with the appliqué was the transfer of the motif...
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by Cynthia Settje
At long last, this is the story of how I made my replica of Worth's classic Ironwork Gown in 2016, perhaps the work I am most known for to this day...
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by Cynthia Settje
This is probably one of the top questions we're asked: how the $&# do you all sew your 18th century tab binding so cleanly, and by machine??
Yo...
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by Cynthia Settje
I just finished a new bustle gown for an upcoming late spring event, and none of my existing hats are quite right for it. Usually I’d simply turn ...
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by Cynthia Settje
When we developed our Georgian stays pattern we had not experimented very much with synthetic whalebone. Now, several years later, we love the stuf...
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by Cynthia Settje
Our corset patterns are made for "average" torso lengths (15.5"-16.5" back neck to waist), which means that you may need to alter the length if you...
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by Cynthia Settje
Padding has been a hot topic in the historical costuming world lately. Historically, some women did it, some didn't—much like our personal preferen...
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