{"id":97,"date":"2014-11-19T12:53:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/?p=97"},"modified":"2018-02-11T00:44:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T00:44:50","slug":"building-a-custom-fit-leather-corset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Building a custom fit leather corset"},"content":{"rendered":"

This corset was made for me, for a character in Odyssey larp who became a priest of Tanit, mother goddess of Carthage.<\/p>\n

Here, in stages, is how I made it…<\/p>\n

\"Leather

Pieces cut out<\/p><\/div>\n

I drafted a corset pattern to my own measurements, and then cut the pieces out of 3mm veg-tan leather. Corsets usually have a front fastening to make putting them on and taking them off easier, but this wasn’t practical for the design I had in mind. I would just have to suffer.<\/p>\n

I then bevelled the edges of each piece to smooth and neaten them.<\/p>\n

\"Tanit

Tanit symbol carved in leather<\/p><\/div>\n

Next, I carved Tanit’s symbol into the front piece with a swivel knife and then a beveller to give it some texture. After letting that dry it was time to put the corset together.<\/p>\n

\"Front

Front riveted<\/p><\/div>\n

The first three pieces are riveted together with brass rivets. You can see the curved shape of the corset starting to form.<\/p>\n

\"Wet-moulding

Wet-moulding the corset<\/p><\/div>\n

After the corset was all put together, I riveted tiny D-rings to the back, for lacing. Then it was time for moulding the corset exactly to my body. To do this I put it on loosely, then wore it in a shower as hot as I could stand to soften it, and then tightened the laces. I repeated this process a few times and then wore the wet corset for as long as I could put up with (this turned out to be about two hours). Then I removed it and allowed it to dry slowly.<\/p>\n

\"Dyed

Dyed leather corset<\/p><\/div>\n

The above photograph shows the corset after initial dyeing with Fiebing’s leather dye.<\/p>\n

\"Leather

Tanit symbol now painted<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is the corset with Tanit’s symbol now painted on, using Angelus leather paint thinned down with resolene varnish. It’s pretty rigid after wet-moulding and dyeing.<\/p>\n

\"Leather

Varnished corset<\/p><\/div>\n

The corset is finished! It’s a lot shinier now it’s been sealed with resolene varnish.<\/p>\n

\"Tanit<\/a>

Tanit Corset<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, wearing it at the event! Image credit to Tom Garnett for that last one.<\/p>\n

To commission a similar corset custom fit to your measurements would cost in the region of \u00a3150.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This corset was made for me, for a character in Odyssey larp who became a priest of Tanit, mother goddess of Carthage. Here, in stages, is how I made it… I drafted a corset pattern to my own measurements, and then cut the pieces out of 3mm veg-tan leather. Corsets usually have a front fastening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,8],"tags":[24,16,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinsandneedlescostume.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}