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Pfalzgrafin corset, taken from Arnold

Playin’ Around with the Pfalzgrafin Corset

Oh, that pesky Pfalzgrafin corset… It’s technically dated to 1598, by virtue of being found on the body of Pfalzgrafin … More

1500s, Blocks, Corsetry, Elizabethan, Patterning, Pfalzgrafin
problem caused by wide upper back

Adjusting the Basic Conic Block for an Athletic Shoulder or Curved Back

I’ve been doing some background work for a project, and I had to do up a Conic Block for Lizzle. … More

Printer Friendly Version of Basic Conical Draft directions…

I realize that instructions are far more helpful when you can print them out and put them on the worktable … More

Connect the shaping line marks, and label the Side, Center Front, and Center Back lines. Label the block.

The Basic Conical Torso Block (Part 2)

Now that I’ve got all the photography done, it’s time to pick up where we left off in The Basic … More

The Basic Conical Torso Block (Part 1)

For several hundred years, beginning where the High Middle Ages met the Renaissance and continuing through the eve of the … More

Building Blocks: an Imprecise History of Pattern Drafting

My life, and probably yours, gentle reader, would be much simplified if, perchance, our predecessors of the fifteenth century had … More

Blocks, Patterning, Sloper

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