Sanakor Plunge corset: 2

After I made my first Sanakor corset I decided to sew another one faithful to the original.

So, I redrafted my pattern due to the fact that the old one didn't satisfy me.

This time I used one layer of hand dyed silk satin, coloured of a shiny tone of grey.

I cutted off all the pattern pieces and then I dyed them.

Then I began to sew together all the panels and adding boning channels.

Unfortunately I didn't take any other construction pics, the next tme I will do it!

I also embroidered on the waist tape the name of the corset.

Edwardian mannequin

In these past holidays, I was thinking to get a dress form, a very special dress form: an edwardian mannequin.

I took a look on the web, there was some of them but they were very expensive!

So I decided to built the mannequin by myself. 

I began moulding a huge piece of polystyrene using a knife, and then  I used a suitable waterproof product to protect and to refine it. The final effect is quite rough, but I like it.

Unfortunately I didn't take any construction pics.

Here it is: