On 9/13/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In a message dated 9/12/2005 9:58:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> I should add that I use a non-historically accurate (for MY time period) >> cross-lacing, and not the spiral lacing, which I really do intend to try >> at some point. Really. ;o) > > If someone would just explain exactly how to do this.... >
Like this? http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/research/lacing/lacing.html For front-lacing fitted gowns, I go bottom to top, spiral lacing. I usually just use a cotton crochet thread that I've worked into a cord with either fingerloop braiding or plying. I make rolled tip from aluminum. For Victorian corsets, top and bottom to the middle. I do alternating cross-lacing (not sure if there's an official term, I just made that up), slightly different from the way I lace shoes. One 'cross' is totally on the outside, the next is totally on the inside. Its actually like double spiral lacing. This way the laces never pass _between_ the two edges - I find that it pinches less and is easier to get tight closure. Catrijn Catrijn _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
