Love them. Just make sure to use them like you would reeds or baleen:
ie every channel or every second channel. And make sure to bone the
entire thing or get some additional support in there. Metal is a newer
material and essentially allowed for a lot of cutting back of the
amount of boning
There is an interesting topic on the USITT costume designers email list about
using zip ties for stays in corsets. Has anyone tried this? Here is a URL for
an example:
http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/CaraGreenleaf/Chain%20and%20Dresses/?action=viewcurrent=Corsetbonesuncut.jpg
The
What a clever idea!
However, does it retain any kind of shaping to the wearers silhouette?
Sidney
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Penny Ladnier pe...@costumegallery.comwrote:
There is an interesting topic on the USITT costume designers email list
about using zip ties for stays in corsets.
If you are a size 22, these are not strong enough for a corset. I
tried.
Susan
On Mar 1, 09, at 8:40 PM, Penny Ladnier wrote:
There is an interesting topic on the USITT costume designers email
list about using zip ties for stays in corsets. Has anyone tried
this? Here is a URL for
This is a zip-tie corset:
http://anvil.unl.edu/emma/clothing/images/undies2large.jpg
http://anvil.unl.edu/emma/clothing/images/undieslarge.jpg
I find zip ties to be a little bulky, and I've had problems with them wearing
through the fabric pretty quickly. However, I've only just now made my
I had made many corsets with duct ties. There's a big difference in
stiffness between duct ties and zip ties. Duct ties are with the air
conditioning stuff at home depot. They're about 1/2 wide and I usually buy
the ones that are 36 long. I love working with them because they're easy to
trim with
At 05:52 PM 3/1/2009, you wrote:
What a clever idea!
However, does it retain any kind of shaping to the wearers silhouette?
Sidney
I haven't noticed any problem with that.
Joan Jurancich
joa...@surewest.net
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At 06:11 PM 3/1/2009, you wrote:
If you are a size 22, these are not strong enough for a corset. I
tried.
Susan
I'm about a size 22 and they worked fine for me. I just made certain
that the boning was pretty solid.
Joan Jurancich
joa...@surewest.net
Hi
I made a set--works very nicely..and I'm not small. I cut the ends off
and rounded them.
They are in two layers of canvas...
Ta
Carol
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: [h-cost] Corset boning with zip ties
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Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 5:40 PM
There is an interesting topic on the USITT costume designers
email list about using zip ties for stays in corsets. Has
anyone tried this? Here is a URL for an example
They do work well; they just have different properties than other
types of boning. Zip/cable ties provide much lighter support and
stiffening than steel of the same thickness. They bend more easily,
which makes them ideal for the areas of a corset where you want the
corset to shape itself to the
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