Where do you buy your boning?

[PhoenixRose]

I'm looking to make myself a new bodice, but I need some boning. All I can find in my local store is the plastic kind. And that doesn't look like it would hold up much, yet alone my decently sized girls.  So I'm going to have to turn to online. So recommendations of a site? I'm leery of just doing a google search and buying from the first place that comes up.

[Magpie Flynn]

I'm leery of websites too.

I've been using heavy duty cable ties from Home Depot for boning, and they've held up to wear and tear and washing really well. Plus they're pretty cheap

[Trillium]

Yep, cable ties are a wonderful thing!

[PhoenixRose]

I'd heard that before. I guess in my mine I was thinking the smaller cable ties you use to tie things like tv cables together to keep them out of the way. Some quick research shows that there are much stronger ones that I was picturing. I'll have to run to home depot and see if they have some, since cheaper and immediately available is always a winner in my book!

[gem]

Yep, Home Depot! Malco brand heavy-duty 36" cable ties. You'll probably have to ask for them; they're not usually stocked with the rest of the cable ties.



If your local store doesn't have them, here's the Home Depot link.

[PhoenixRose]

So I checked online and it said my Home Depot had them in stock (yey!) So off I went to Ye Olde Home Depot. And looked in the isle with the rest of the zip ties. They had some, but not the same brand, so I asked an associate where they would be. And he looked at me confused. So I showed him the product page on my phone and he was like, well let me show you the cable ties. And then he looked them up in the computer and still nothing. So I returned from my quest empty handed. But tomorrow I'm going to try to call and see if I can find someone who knows where they are. After all, they say they have 20 in stock!

Where do you usually find yours at? That might help me explain what they are normally used for. When I explained I wanted to put them in a corset the guy looked at me even more confused than he originally was. haha.

[Magpie Flynn]

It was awhile ago, but mine were near the other zip ties and i think some plumbing?

[LadyeA]

I would highly recommend Linda at classactfabrics.com  See the section under "Corset Stays"  She sells all the basic corsetry steels.  I buy in bulk, and from my online searches her prices are the best I've found.  She is also a nice honest lady who deserves the business.   

Before I found sources my sister and I went to home depot for supplies, we bought rope, files, wire cutters- we looked like we were going to break someone out of jail!

[gem]

Before I found sources my sister and I went to home depot for supplies, we bought rope, files, wire cutters- we looked like we were going to break someone out of jail!

That's hilarious!  Once I was in line at Ace Hardware (buying grommets, naturally ), and the woman in front of me was buying a shovel, a tarpaulin, and four bottles of bleach. 

[Master James]

If you want steel boning, I would highly recommend http://store.corsetmaking.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=CMS&AFFIL=CM  We purchase everything from here and they are amazingly great and have good prices.  I would suggest getting their corset grommets too as they will never pull out.  Hope this helps.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

http://www.granndcompanies.com/

Here is where I have purchased Steel Boning from in the past as well as Hoop Steel. I also purchase from www.farthingales.com

For the heavy Duty Cable ties for Corsets and boning for Bodices is from our local Menards store located next to my JoAnn Fabrics.

[Hoowil]

The Home Depot ones I got were over with the ventilation ducts. They're labeled as duct ties. Big bag of 48" things that are about 3/8" wide, and nearly 1/4" thick. Best part is that they came in a bag of 20 something, for much less than you'll spend on a roll of boning at a fabric store.

[renfairephotog]

HVAC section.

[Kate XXXXXX]

I have bought flat steel, plastic and spiral boning from Dainty Supplies, Vena Cava, Fabricland, M Court, Sewing Chest, and Bitss and Bats here in the UK.  Some I fisited and some were online.  Some I've bought from both ways.   

I don't use cable ties.  My experiment with them taught me the real thing is much better and cheaper in the long run.

[Taffy Saltwater]

If you want steel boning, I would highly recommend http://store.corsetmaking.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=CMS&AFFIL=CM  We purchase everything from here and they are amazingly great and have good prices.  I would suggest getting their corset grommets too as they will never pull out.  Hope this helps.

This is a great company and I have nothing but praise for them.  They're fast, too.