Blue Rose Corsetry

03/10/2025

Wow!

08/08/2023

Actors, writers, directors, producers are struggling to tell stories about the marginalized, but is it a sustainable career choice?

11/25/2022

All the detail!

01/08/2022

Got word of this website through someone in the SCA as a sitter for hosiery for large legs, but it's so much more!
These models are so refreshing and beautiful!

Snag. Clothes that fit. We make clothes and tights that are genuinely different sizes, to fit comfortably women of all shapes.

01/26/2021

Sewing Tip Tuesday

http://www.jandofabrics.com

09/14/2020

The incredible talents of Haute Couture level design and dress making.

09/07/2020

https://teainateacup.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/making-a-1902-walking-skirt/

For a while I have wanted to make a new dancing skirt. I have loved dancing in my Victorian Fan Skirt and I really love this style of skirt prominent in the late Victorian and early Edwardian perio…

12/19/2018

Truth!!

“Oh, you sew? That’s great. Can you hem my trousers? Fix my curtains? Make me one of those?” Anyone who can sew knows these questions all too well but often the answer isn’t so clear. Time and again they get lured in with a smile and the opportunity for a good deed only to be …

06/05/2018

Always worth a refresher before sewing these.

NEW on The Thread: How to sew box pleats tutorial

Today we are going to show you how to draft, form and sew box pleats. After knife pleats, discussed in our previous tutorial, box pleats are the second most common type of pleats you are likely to use when sewing garments. Just as with knife pleats, they are used to add volume, take in fullness and add interest to the silhouette of a garment. So, like darts, they are a useful technique for tailoring garments.

To try this free tutorial, please follow link: http://bit.ly/2sIcsZP

02/23/2018

Interesting to see the type of shape it formed on the figure

The corset seen on Queen Elizabeth I's funeral effigy in 1603 has been carefully restored by costume historians ahead of an exhibition at Westminster Abbey this summer.

08/30/2017

Interesting

Genetic engineering is used to make leather without animals