Location: Sacramento City Dry Goods, 110 L Street, Old Sacramento, CA 95814
Who: Intermediate sewing skills required.
Cost: $150 – Includes Workshop Fee and Complete Corset Kit. Kits available in white herringbone with contrasting trim. Trim colors available are: pink, blue, peach, and teal.
A hands on sewing workshop in which students learn to fit and construct an historically accurate Victorian corset using Laughing Moon Mercantile’s #100, Women’s Victorian Underwear - historically accurate unmentionables for the Victorian period, approximately 1837 to 1890s. The techniques, materials, and skills learned may be applied to other corset styles and boned garments.
Topics covered during the workshop include:
Coutil, linings, and fashion fabric choices
Busks and boning, from whale bone to spring steel
Fitting and construction techniques
Flossing and trimming
Lacing, wearing, and caring for a corset
Student supply list:
Sewing machine with bobbin, regular and zipper foot, in good working order
Size 14 or 16 machine needles, bring extras
Tracing paper and tape
Some method of marking fabric - pen, pencil, chalk, or wheel and marking paper
Thread, scissors (both fabric and paper), pins
Basic sewing supplies including hand sewing needles
Thread to match your fabric
For Further Information Contact: Barbara Muran (916) 419-1889 -
or JoAnn Peterson (916) 446-4422 -
Date: July 24, 2010