This weekend I'll go to a beading convention again, www.facettsthlm.se. I had my shop with me the last time at Facett.STHLM, but this time I'm "only" a participant. That will be nice for a change. Actually, it has already been nice. You sell a lot during one such weekend, but it requires weeks of preparations for a shop like mine that isn't designed to be portable. Now I've had time to improve the webshop instead. Anyway, I'll be there on Friday afternoon/evening and the whole day on Saturday at least. I haven't decided about Sunday yet, that depends on how tired I get of driving back and forth (I don't have a hotel room this time). There will be contests and workshops and a lot of bead-crazy people to talk to, so I expect it to be fun and inspiring.

I will attend a workshop on polymer clay bead making. I simply can't seem to limit the number of techniques I want to learn :-) Last year I saw a lampwork demo at Facett, and look where that has got me. Fortunately polymer clay equipment isn't nearly as expensive as lampwork equipment.

Let me open your mind!

If you want to make a professional corset, it's got to be coutil. And since baleen [whalebone] went out, it's got to be boned with steel. Right?

Weeeell, not exactly. You'd be surprised what you find out when you look at real nineteenth century corsets, which is exactly what I did on Friday.

I'm lucky enough to live within an hour of the Symington Collection's archive. I made an appointment to go and see real corsets up close, meaning that I spent six hours snapping photos furiously as the enormously helpful Cali just kept bringing me more and more armfuls of big blue archive boxes.

And when I opened those boxes with my little cotton gloves on [to protect the corsets from the oils on my skin], what did I see?


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Inside the top edge, showing the flossing

And look what it's boned with...



Cane? Yeah. And it's still gorgeous, and it still worked.

It's obvious when you think about it. Corsets have always been complex garments, but there was a time when everyone needed one, so we are by no means the first to try to find ways of making them economically. Symington's spent a lot of energy trying to make "affordable" corsets and they clearly succeeded both by being resourceful with materials and also by refining the processes by which corsets were made.

The "cane" corsets were actually made with a type of reed, and the finished garment was laced onto a hollow copper form that had steam forced through it, moulding the reeds (and thus the corset) into a shape that this example still holds today.

Now, Symingtons were mass-producing, which still makes what we do expensive in comparison, but if you've been tearing your hair out trying to find ways of reducing your prices to accommodate everyone (or yourself!) then you're not alone. If Symington's had had access to cable ties, they would undoubtedly have used them.

Another example:


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This one's a little dearer - some whalebone, some cording, and lots of cane. And just to make us all feel a little better about the fiddly bits... the points of their gussets were a bit ropey too.




And what about the coutil? You're going to have to take my word for it on this one because I don't have photos, but my good friend Jema showed me an original corset in her collection last week, and we both marvelled at the fabric. It was like cotton sheeting, so light and translucent, and one layer only! The difference, however, was that it was very densely woven fabric indeed, very strong and with no stretch whatsoever.

That's the key: it's got to be strong, non-stretch and densely woven. Coutil checks all those boxes, but that doesn't mean that it's the only thing that's any use for making an outstanding corset. Nor is steel the ONLY thing that can bone a serviceable, economically priced corset. So go, experiment. There is no rule that can't be tested and broken.

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Marvellous mail!

Good grief, two posts in one day!  Whatever next?  Well, yes I know I already blogged today, but I received not one, but two parcels in the post since then, and just couldn't wait til tomorrow to share them with you - you know how excited I get about nice things in the post!

First was this gorgeous parcel of fabric that I ordered from Z&S.  I had secretly told myself that I wouldn't place any more overseas orders until the exchange rates improved, but when I saw that they had the new Prints Charming fabrics in stock, coupled with 15% off, I just couldn't resist!

 

The pale turquoise fabric on top isn't Prints Charming - it's by Clothworks but don't ask me what it's called! - but is very lovely nonetheless.  I think I might make another buttercup bag with it.  I now have quite a collection of Prints Charming fabrics, certainly enough to make a quilt with!  Perhaps I will, eventually, I'm not sure yet.  For now I'm happy just looking at it all!!

Anyway, shortly after that there was a knock at the door and there was the parcelforce man with another package for me! 

 

This enormous box was from Lissy Lou, my heart swap partner.  Eventually, after much rummaging, I pulled out this little lot!

 

Ooh, how exciting!  I very quickly ripped everything open and this is what was inside:

 

Some stickers, a set of heart cookie cutters, some pink jelly beans, chocolate hearts, loveheart sweets, some gift tags, some mini pegs with red hearts on and a very sweet fabric heart decoration.  The chocolates and lovehearts made me laugh as I had sent the very same to Lissy Lou!  Thank you Lissy Lou, this has been a great swap.   This is what I made for her:

 

a soft fabric basket,

 

a beaded felt heart decoration,

 

and a fabric/felty brooch.  I also sent some stickers, cupcake cases, clips and the sweets, but stupidly forgot to photograph all that until it was all nicely wrapped up!  Never mind, I think she liked it all! 

Many thanks also to Catherine of Mollycupcakes for organising the swap.

R x

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Week # 49

Happy Spring everyone!!

Our card sketch this week was created by Chris:

Pat created a beautiful card using lots of pastel colors:

Lorie A created this wonderful card. Isn't that image just adorable?

Lori T's card is so cute with all of the lovely flowers.

The layout sketch this week was created by Lesli.

Mariska used lots of springy green to create this beautiful layout.

Kristen's layout really has me thinking about spring and all of the flowers that come with the season.

Angie also has us yearning for all the beauty of spring.

Thanks again ladies for such beautiful work. Did we give anyone else a dose of spring fever?

See you back here next week for our 50th week reveal!!