Corset Waist-Tapes?
When you make a corset, you often put a "tape" around the waist to help prevent stretching. The tape must obviously be the most unstretchy thing you can find, and then even though you have already made sure at least one layer of the corset is as stretchless as you can get, this makes sure of it. Because obviously if you do it up and it stretches, it kind of defeats the point, and you might not be able to do it up any further to compensate. To give an idea of how little stretch you want, say you have a waist when reduced of 70cm. 1% stretch would be 0.7cm. Since you might have a waist reduction of 7cm, this is 10% of the reduction. Quite a lot. The waist-tape also gives added strength to the area under the most strain.
I was looking for some appropriate tapes for this purpose, and I am not sure if these are right but this is what I found:
The natural coloured one might be cotton, while the other two are synthetic but not too horrendous. They do not seem to stretch. You can just see on the lighter ones, and might be able to see better if you click to get a large picture, the weave of the tapes/ribbons which makes a diagonal ribbed pattern. I think this is what makes them strong and non-stretch. I saw some twill material the other day and looked at it and it had the tiny diagonal ribbed pattern as well, and was also non-stretch. Clearly, in the picture above the black might not as well be there cos you can't see anything, but oh well.
Here is my picture I made of the weaves. The black and white are like the left-hand one, and the natural like the right. Although you can also see the horizontally running threads in the tapes, this is the nice little pattern it makes on them.
So, that's a pretty big picture of not much, but there you go.
Here is an interesting link on different types of material, like canvas and duck and twill and so on if you are interested. It sort of relates to this discussion, although I haven't read it yet. It looks useful to know.
I was looking for some appropriate tapes for this purpose, and I am not sure if these are right but this is what I found:
The natural coloured one might be cotton, while the other two are synthetic but not too horrendous. They do not seem to stretch. You can just see on the lighter ones, and might be able to see better if you click to get a large picture, the weave of the tapes/ribbons which makes a diagonal ribbed pattern. I think this is what makes them strong and non-stretch. I saw some twill material the other day and looked at it and it had the tiny diagonal ribbed pattern as well, and was also non-stretch. Clearly, in the picture above the black might not as well be there cos you can't see anything, but oh well.Here is my picture I made of the weaves. The black and white are like the left-hand one, and the natural like the right. Although you can also see the horizontally running threads in the tapes, this is the nice little pattern it makes on them.
So, that's a pretty big picture of not much, but there you go.Here is an interesting link on different types of material, like canvas and duck and twill and so on if you are interested. It sort of relates to this discussion, although I haven't read it yet. It looks useful to know.
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