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Weekly Photo Dump 281012

Hello HelloSo. What’s been going on this week in CHaoS CastLE?Let’s see? Got the 15” corset fully closed but am not happy with the caving in you can see here at the busk. ICK yuck. Remedy? Sure thing baby. I’m inserting a couple of big old steels in behind the busk. Will report back later. […]

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Corset: Handmade Leather

Hi there I knocked this corset up over the last couple of days.  :-) I used the 1890 pattern I bought from Atelier Sylphe a couple of months ago, and showed the first lacing of that corset mockup in July.  I was about to start on the coutil version and a lightbulb moment saw me cutting leather, […]

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Wearing in the Fairy Boss Mother.  10cm gap at the back, 2nd tightening.

Just a Quickie

Hello Yes, it’s about 3am in Australia, but I’ve been sorting out some business issues with Green Fairy Corsets; and hopefully a full resolution has been made. It could mean that the production of the corsets will be delayed for some months while I seek a new manufacturer, or it presses on seemingly in the […]

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Introducing the Multi-Loop Busk

….exclusive to Green Fairy Corset’s Fairy Boss Mother line. There’s been little development in modern corseting apart from steel bones in preference to whale bone or reed/bamboo combinations.  There are experiments with different types of fabric, however, we always return to coutil if we want a sturdy garment that won’t stretch. There’s been the burgeoning […]

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1890 Corset Project

I bought this pattern a little while ago, and have been procrastinating over making it up. I serviced my sewing machine, and it actually raises neat little stitches again. No more leather sewing. Bad Suzan.  Bad. Very Bad. So. I got my bum into gear, copied the pattern and tried to make head and tail […]

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