Working

I made a lot on the 16th c. corset yesterday. The thing that stops me from finishing it is that I need another spool of buttonhole silk for sewing boning channels and the last 3 1/2 eyelets, which are reinforced by metal rings on both sides. As Janet Arnold says, it is clumsy, but I don't think it will be too bad. I'm currently sewing the three layers of the tabs together before binding them with pink grosgrain ribbon. But I can't try it on "for real" until I have bought more thread so I can finish the eyelets :(

Yesterday I won the bidding on the absolutely wonderful book Fashion and eroticism from the victorian era to the jazz age by Valerie Steele. I had only read the corset-book from her before and though I like it a lot it is popularly written. This book has a much more theoretical approach and I love it. And now I can have my very own!

I also ordered 5 different swatches of silk taffeta from Denverfabrics. I need taffeta both for a corset and for a dress. I would have preferred satin for the corset, but silk satin is very hard to find.