10mm Steel Corset Boning with Plastic Coating - by The metre or Cut to Custom Length

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Featherbone was a substitute for whalebone in the Edwardian era. Featherbone was made from the quills of feathers and was more pliable than whalebone. Therefore it was used less for corsets and more for dress bodices, for belts and as collar supports.

10 Types Of Corset Boning For Historical Corsetry - Sew

A rigid bone made of nylon coated spring steel. Specs 1″ wide. Very little flex, one direction only. Figure 9: Extra Wide Bone (Underbusk)Katherine Waters has always been fascinated with bead embroidery. Learn how she and you can get started with tambour embroidery. Boning helps smooth out the lines of a bodice. It holds the seams straight and keeps them from wrinkling. Since this corset uses facing to finish the edges, that is what is pictured here and what the following step demonstrate. However if you use binding, just do that instead for steps 10 and 12, and skip step 13.

Different types of Plastic corset boning and what it is used for

From the perspective of corsetry, Rigilene boning is not a good choice because it is too light to support a proper corset pattern, it will not help modify the body in any way, it will also distort over time giving you unsighltly lumps where you really don't want them!If you prefer to buy a pattern, this is a selection of the brands available. Laughing Moon and Past Patterns will be proper historical patterns, while anything with "Halloween" in the title is going to be too simple in my opinion and probably won't look that great.