1860s corset

Woven corset by Charles Bayer, Britain, London, 1879-85

position of the bones worked with the front metal busk along with back bones to bring in the waist. (Early 1860's corset)

Crotty & Richards | Corset | American | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

These corset patterns were taken directly from online editions of De Gracieuse magazine. These are only the Ladies corsets, I did not includ...

One of hundreds of thousands of free digital items from The New York Public Library.

With only three days left in the year, I have a lot of catching up to do if I want to cover all my 2012 sewing projects! Today’s entry will focus on an 1880s-1890s corset and dress that I mad…

I drafted the chemise pattern after looking a lot of museum examples online. I tried to make it in a style that would fit both 1860's and 1870's. It's made of thin cotton and the trimmed with cotton lace. The drawers are also drafted by me, trimmed with the same lace and pintucks. The is a one layer cotton coutil corset, sewn with machine using period techniques described in The Fashions Of The Gilded Age by Frances Grimble. The pattern is based on the c. 1873 corset from Corsets and…

Pattern Description:1860’s Gored Corset sewing pattern, individually sized. These patterns are based very closely on historical extant corsets and patents, but the draft is our own, adapted t…

Historic Pattern Database – Genesee Country Village & Museum

I will be sharing how I recreated a civil war era corset, complete with hand embroidery and tons of bone flossing!