When I was working as a dresser at the Opera House, some back-laced
costumes came with little metal aiglets. Those were nice for
dressing, but always got stuck in the grommets after the show when
the ladies wanted to undress quickly to go home. I found out that
securing the ends with plain
20 years ago I bought a huge industrial spool of 1/4 cotton twill tape. (I
STILL have tons of it!) I use that and it works well, but the ends do fray.
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I shoulda mentioned the advantages of the cotton twill tape.
It's thin because it's flat, y'know...a tape. But it's
: sstormwa...@yahoo.com
To: h-cost...@indra.com
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Lacing question frayed ends
Just be a merchant trader's wife, as they usually are rich, and involved in
importing in fine fabrics and other fineries that people bought. A tailor was
not paid a whole lot to make up those
Certainly not period correct, but I use lacing cord-by-the spool from
Greenberg Hammer and using a narrow zig-zag stich on the machine, I stitch
about 1.5 down each end a couple of times (actualy I stitch about 3 while
stretching the cord to make it as narrow as possible, then cut it from the
For corsets I make I use really big grommets. So a knot in the end of
whatever I'm using for lacing is fine, fits right through the holes.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Kate Pinner pinn...@mccc.edu wrote:
Certainly not period correct, but I use lacing cord-by-the spool from
Greenberg
2009 12:46:58 -0700
From: kay...@gmail.com
To: h-cost...@indra.com
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Lacing question frayed ends
For corsets I make I use really big grommets. So a knot in the end of
whatever I'm using for lacing is fine, fits right through the holes.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Just be a merchant trader's wife, as they usually are rich, and involved in
importing in fine fabrics and other fineries that people bought. A tailor was
not paid a whole lot to make up those fine fabrics into garments, and was
considered just a craftsmen. And women didn't seem to be allowed
