Gcse textiles corset

What’s your favorite way to celebrate Halloween? Spending an evening exchanging scary stories with your closest friends, binging horror films that will make you sleep with the lights on for a week, or passing out candy to all of the adorable kids who dressed up as their favorite characters to go trick or treating? There’s no wrong way to embrace the spooky season, but if you’re looking for a frightening experience, what might be even more terrifying than ghost stories and strolls through…

Steel mermaid corset by Fiori Couture

Corset textiles art

Hello Dear Reader Today I am sharing how I made my book corset. I was inspired by this amazing dress by Sylvie Facon when I was designing the clothing for Lady Vagabond. The trick was to create one for myself without sewing... I had this black corset in my stash which I had purchased a few years ago with the intention of Steampunking! So I hunted it down and set about removing all the frills (I am not really a frills person) then started painting it with acrylic paints. I started with a…