Latest Piece
Here is a special piece; it's a reproduction made from a dupioni that is hell to photograph; it's a silver cross-woven with green to be Robin's Egg blue. In person, it's just stunning, but I am unable to do justice to it with my ghetto photo setup.

The lace trim is very special to my client; it is antique Edwardian curtain lace made by her family. I was thrilled to be able to work with it. I added a distressed bow in the front; it is made by making a traditional ribbon bow out of silk dupioni which I hand shredded. I hope it achieves the effect I was going for!

I am also proud of how the flossing turned out; originally I was going to use both brown and ivory silk thread, but the brown became too over-powering, so I opted for simply ivory instead.

The corset has a 20" waist fully closed, sits low on the hips and contains 26 spring steel flats, staytape, lined in coutil., etc. Everything a good Totally Waisted! reproduction is made from.

Here are some craptastic pix!

A close up of the lace:





The full thing:



A close up of the flossing detail:



A close up of the ribbon:



Sigh. Too bad this colour is not working. It's not even close to the beauty of this colour combination.




I hope she likes it, and I get better shots!