found a corset building book

[Auryn]

So I spent a couple of hours at the new county library the other day and found this book.

"The Basics of Corset Building: A Handbook for Beginners" by Linda Sparks


I've been reading it slowly cause its a lot of information and takes a few passes to comprehend.
Do any of you who regularly make corsets have this book??
If so what do you think of it??
Id love to hear the perspective of someone who actually makes them and what you think of her instructions.

[Kate XXXXXX]

It's am absolute treasure if you are making VICTORIAN corsets.  It is not aimed at anything earlier than about 1840.

[gem]

I have this book out from the library right now, because Amazon kept pushing it on me. LOL

Mine is the original edition, though, I think--it has an orange cover.  I'm wondering if she's updated anything...? (Like put an index in, maybe?!)



Mine is due back on Monday, and I think I'm going to go ahead and order it.  There's not much in there that I didn't already know, but there *were* things I'd never seen illustrated before, and I always like to have references that 1.) I can read in a thunderstorm LOL) and 2.) re-state things in a new way.

Particularly valuable to me was her illustration and explanation of using a drawcord at the top edge of the corset to pull the neckline closer to the body.  This technique is mentioned in Tudor Tailor, but glossed over so quickly it was really hard to understand what they were talking about.

[Syrilla]

I agree.  It is a great book to have in stock.  And for any curved period, the techniques are wonderfully laid out.

[Jon Foster]

I'll have to see if our library can get either one of those. Our oldest daughter would wear a corset every day if we let her... 

Jon.