Black Victorian cape

The Victorian black cape.

Back when it was safe, on one of my antique hunting trips, I stumbled upon what was once an absolutely stunning Victorian cape.  When I was walking around scanning for treasure, the first thing that caught my eye was tattered shreds of black fabric peeking out from the back of an old clothes rail, if it’s shredded, ragged and for sale, it’s probably interesting and definitely worth investigating! Then with the glint of black beading I knew that I had found something that I was …

About the Corsets

Construction: Decades of research and skills go into the construction of the corsets and dresses. All of our corsets are: Steel boned throughout Lined and interlined in heavy cotton for strength and breath-ability The Seams are all reinforced and triple stitched for strength The eyelets are set in re-inforced channels for tight lacing All or our gowns can be customised or if you need something even more special and unique, a full design service is available. Please email us for more information and prices.

Ethereal Corsets

One of my favourite wedding corsets This has to be one of my favourite wedding corsets from 2010. The customer came to me with a concept in her head of the look she wanted to achieve with her wedding gown. and Having found a gorgeous, handmade, tuile skirt in just the right colour from Allie J Designs, she needed to complete the look with just the right corset. Her ideas were beyond gorgeous and there was no way to buy such a garment without having …

Gallery

Gallery Library Welcome to the gallery library, browse for inspiration and feel free to email if you would like some more information! Click here to use the contact from Read More to see all the images from all the galleries.

Inspiration

A selection of glorious goodies for you to explore and enjoy with a view to putting ideas together for colour schemes, styles, themes, embelishments, decorations and every element of your design… Read More to see all the images from all the galleries.

History

there is no evidence that has been found so far that proves when the first corset was made. We know that women in classical Greece used wide tight leather belts as under garments and accentuated their waistlines with decorative ribbon tied and wrapped around the waist. There is very little surviving evidence of undergarments or corsetry from across Europe during the later stages of the Roman Empire and in to the dark ages. This doesn’t mean that they weren’t around, just that evidence hasn’t been …

The studio itself…

Every item that we sell is designed, planned, crafted and finished by us, in our studio, we do not out source to factories or have any of our garments produced for us. we would like to show you around the studio, right now we have a lot of commisions on the go and all commisions are kept secret until after the planned event so we will take more pictures when these garments are packaged up out sight but here’s a peek for the moment…

Customer reviews

This is new page that I have put up for you to read and leave your comments and reviews. It will take me a little while to get it all constructed and polished properly, Thanks for your patience! This beautiful message was left for me in the image gallery by Lili-kad photography click here to see it.