The Secret of the Single Layer Corset

Somewhere in the Victorian era, people started coming up with ideas for making corsets more comfortable to wear. Gigglishiously ironical … More

More Shape Matters: Why the Same Waist Curve Doesn’t Work for Every Body

I had this horrible, recurring experience with some of my oldest costumes: I’d put a zillion hours worth of work … More

So, you’ve got a basic ren wench bodice pattern. Yay! Now it’s time to pick some fabrics and sew it … More

Remember a while back, I posted directions for a Basic Conic Block draft? Everyone was sort of like, wow, missa, … More

Aiglettes are a great way to give a renaissance costume a very finished look (and keep your points from flopping … More

I made my first Elizabethan corset back in the dark ages of internet time, when it was still pretty common … More

So I was out trimming the privet hedge the other day, like you do (she says, sounding perfectly British about … More

The surviving pattern published in Juan de Alcega’s ‘Libro de Geometria, Practica y Traca’(1589) represents almost everything we know about … More

The world is full of straw hats. They are almost never the size and shape you’d like them to be. … More

File this one under “possibly useful to some one, at some time, somehow”: this is a series of pictures of … More