You can actually purchase whalebone legally from Inuit traders. This was
on a discussion list I was looking at last week. I have a bundle of
genuine corset whalebone inherited from an elderly corsetiere, ands
while it is flexible like modern plastic boning, which I like for other
periods, there is just a little more rigidity in the whalebone - and not
because it is aged and dried out.
Whalebone does get brittle with age.
I would not buy whalebone even legally because I think preserving the
whale population is more important than "total accuracy."
Fran
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