At 21:06 30/01/2006, you wrote:
In a message dated 1/30/2006 3:50:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The other question, is whether to use the plastic
> boning, or go the metal route
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I prefer metal. In Honnisette's book she mixes the two....some metal in the
front point...and scattered with plastic throughout the front pieces... to
keep it rigid and at the CB for strength at the lacing. That seems
OK to me too.
I've always made 18th century corsets with Rigilene and straight
steel bones combined. They have been for ladies of many different
sizes, and shapes, and I don't have a problem with bones poking if I
melt the ends in a candle flame. You can buy caps, but they are
very thick. Someone once recommended the so called German boning -
is that the same as your plastic boning? I don't like it.
The whalebone in these things can be quite thick and as rigid as metal. And
quite frankly they don't make metal boning as stiff as they used to, it is
very flexible. If you can get 1/8" metal boning. you might like
that. On "Last
of the Mohicans" the boned jackets I made, and some corsets were boned with
hoop wire....sometimes the 2 strips in their casing, sometimes
taken out and
used one at a time. The leads corsets were all 1/4" metal boning.
I own a copy of an 18th century corset made with whalebone -
obviously made before the ban - and as stated, it is quite solid and
rigid. (But the whalebones cut through the linen, and dig in!!)
Suzi
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