Redthreaded Blog
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NEW PATTERN: 1780's Front Lacing Stays
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Our #1 pattern request ever is now available in digital and printed form. HOORAY! The pattern includes an optional stomacher, and features alterab... -
Redthreaded's Binding Secrets Revealed--with Video!
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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... -
Using Synthetic Whalebone in Redthreaded's Georgian Stays Pattern
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When we developed our Georgian stays pattern we had not experimented very much with synthetic whalebone. Now, several years later, we love the stuf... -
Synthetic Whalebone vs. Steel
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Synthetic whalebone or steel...what's the difference, how to choose, and what the heck even IS "synthetic whalebone" anyway? -
Costume College 2017 Recap -- Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Wig
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"Costume College: a bunch of introverts fangirling at each other from across rooms. But in the best way."
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My visit to the Collection at the DAR
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I'm sitting here going over photos from this past month and wondering how is it nearly May? April was full of work and travel; fast-paced projects ... -
Going for the...Gold?
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Something happened last week. Something astonishing, and a bit unbelievable. I won both the Foundations Revealed and Your Wardrobe Unlock'd compe... -
The "Dotty Dress"
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Last week over "Christmas Break," when I probably should have been digitizing patterns or catching up on bookkeeping (or taking a...break?), I deci...
