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	<title>Sempstress &#187; 1500s</title>
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		<title>Cheat Sheet for Alcega Farthingale Hoop Sizes</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/download/cheat-sheet-for-alcega-farthingale-hoop-sizes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this a little while back.  It&#8217;s simply a chart of hoop sizes to mimic the  shape and angle of the Alcega farthingale.  The chart is indexed by waist size and waist to ground measurement.  The full story of all the maths used to create this chart is available here.This file used to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Printer Friendly Version of Basic Conical Draft directions&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/printer-friendly-version-of-basic-conical-draft-directions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/printer-friendly-version-of-basic-conical-draft-directions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize that instructions are far more helpful when you can print them out and put them on the worktable while you&#8217;re using them.  I also realize that pages upon pages of full color photos do not a happy printer make.  I&#8217;ve made a not-so-chatty (yes, I actually can edit) PDF version of the Basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Basic Conical Torso Block (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/the-basic-conical-torso-block-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/the-basic-conical-torso-block-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve got all the photography done, it&#8217;s time to pick up where we left off in The Basic Conical Torso Block (Part 1).  We&#8217;re completing a basic torso block that we can use for the simplified, conical torsos popular in Renaissance, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Pompadour, Colonial, and all other eras between the Sixteenth and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Make Quickie, Removable Aiglette</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/make-quickie-removable-aiglette/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/make-quickie-removable-aiglette/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accessories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jewelry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aiglettes are a great way to give a renaissance costume a very finished look (and keep your points from flopping about and untying).  But why would you possibly want a removable aiglette?  Laundry.  It&#8217;s nice to be able to take all the metal bits off before things go into the wash&#8230; This is a pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Basic Conical Torso Block (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/the-basic-conical-torso-block-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/demo/the-basic-conical-torso-block-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pattern Drafting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several hundred years, beginning where the High Middle Ages met the Renaissance and continuing through the eve of the French Revolution, fashion treated the female torso as something of an inconvenience.  The breasts were flattened, first by bands of wool or linen, later by corsetry and boned bodices. The sides of the body were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shape Matters: Why the ultra-basic corset draft doesn’t work for every body.</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/shape-matters-why-the-ultra-basic-corset-draft-dont-work-for-every-body/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/shape-matters-why-the-ultra-basic-corset-draft-dont-work-for-every-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made my first Elizabethan corset back in the dark ages of internet time, when it was still pretty common to ask Real Live Humans(tm) how to do things.  I got instructions that were relatively simple &#8211; a bust, a waist, divide by two, draw some lines, and presto-change-o, a corset pattern.  It&#8217;s the method [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recreating the Alcega Farthingale for Modern Bodies</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/recreating-the-alcega-farthingale-for-modern-bodies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/recreating-the-alcega-farthingale-for-modern-bodies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Instructions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The surviving pattern published in Juan de Alcega&#8217;s &#8216;Libro de Geometria, Practica y Traca&#8217;(1589) represents almost everything we know about the farthingale. Most articles on recreating the Alcega farthingale focus on faithfully reproducing the pattern based on fabric widths. Honestly, though, calling this a &#8220;pattern&#8221; is a bit of an overstatement: the book was more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything I Know About&#8230; 16th Century Corsetry</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/everything-i-know-about-16th-century-corsetry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/everything-i-know-about-16th-century-corsetry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another dry, dusty pile of academic writing&#8230; This time, the topic is the corsetry/torso support of the 16th century.  I find the full history of the artificial silhouette totally fascinating, and I&#8217;m geeked beyond belief on the actual genesis of the corset.  In the 16th century alone, a bunch of different devices are in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything I Know About&#8230;. 16th Century Support Skirts</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/everything-i-know-about-16th-century-support-skirts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2010/everything-i-know-about-16th-century-support-skirts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from a research paper I did a while back. The paper itself is 40 pages and covers 4 centuries of support skirts and corsetry. I figure it&#8217;s more digestible in smaller chunks. Please note: my regularly scheduled writing style has been suspended in favor of something more palatable to the hardcore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparison of Different Boning Materials for Use in Sixteenth Century Corsetry</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/comparison-of-boning-materials-16t/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/comparison-of-boning-materials-16t/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Costumes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Construction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabethan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[File this one under &#8220;possibly useful to some one, at some time, somehow&#8221;: this is a series of pictures of corsets I&#8217;ve made over the last several years. Each one shows me standing in profile, next to my dress dummy. This makes the changes in my shape imposed by each corset fairly obvious, and the [...]]]></description>
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