So I went to DeGracieuse and looked through 1908-1912 for corset patterns.
Settled on a pattern from July 1910 "Corset for a slim Woman (easy to wash)
(If those links fail, try this one for the illustration, and this one for the pattern sheet)
I saved the image and pulled it into Rhino CAD, I have an approximation of the sheet size deciphered from an older page that had a scale on it. I traced around the pattern pieces.
Then moved the pieces (thus removing the confusing background)and aligned them with the grain markings (little arrows)
Then I cut them apart to make a nursing opening. Added 1/2" seam allowance, and printed that sucker out!
At this point I have printed the pattern out and cut out my mock up from an old pair of my husband's pants!
I expect I will have lots of alterations to make, but I want to check out where it hits me as waist line and such.
Supposedly it has a 24" waist, I am normally about a 27" waist, so that is a reasonable size, but then I expect the bust and hips to be larger than my measurements. I also need to check the flap position.
The CADing of the pattern was done in one day, I have gotten fairly quick at it!
UPDATE, I have put up a more usable image of the pattern
Wow, how did you highlight the lines from the complex multi-pattern page? I am looking at "Pattern Maker" for the 1912 Titanic Sewing Project and wonder how you chose what you use, what you like about it, etc.
ReplyDeleteAs I said in the post I pulled the saved image into my CAD program and traced over the lines. I can change the color and style of the lines I draw in CAD. Rhinoceros is more than a pattern making software like Paternmaker, which I haven't delt with much. I use Rhino because my husband uses it so I didn't have to buy another program, just use his. It doesn't have any fancy fashion software, so I have to grade and add seam allowances by hand.
ReplyDeleteWould you give away the size/proportion to which you scaled the thingie, to allow someone else. who has not got an idea of the original measuremtns to do the same?
ReplyDeleteI am still working on perfecting my method of scaling them up, which has so far included purchasing original and reprints of the period magazines. As of yet I do not have a method that works 100% every time. Then the is the fact that the pages are not all the same size and scanning causes some distortion....
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