I’ve been busy looking at an old issue of La Mode Illustree, breaking in a old graphics tablet, and writing up some translations. My latest toy is an GD series Wacom Intuos– it’s 12 inches by 12 inches, which is just large enough to preserve the angular relations found in a typical pattern– too small, and it requires far too much “tiling”. Too large, and it starts to get horrifically expensive. Unfortutunately, both Pattern Master and Dratsight don’t seem to be set up to input a “sketch.” Technically, if I rapidly tap the stylus against the tablet, I can get a series of dots– or connected lines, but it’s a long way from just drawing the details. Luckily LibreCAD allows a more natural sketching action.
Here’s a corset for a girl of 12-14 years. In AutoCAD2004 format since, apparently Adobe Illustrator doen’t like the latest version of DWG)
corset2004 Not normally my cup of tea– but since I have a 1894 guide to drafting girl’s corsets from meausrements– well– I’m hoping that I can make some connections between the 1894 patternmaking scheme and this 1889 pattern.
Prnting so that the back meausrement is 34 cm and a bit is left as an exercise for the reader. One of the reasons why patternmaster is so useful– less work to manage ones tilings.
La Mode Illustreé–(4 August 1889 the source of the corset pattern.