Happy Earth Day 🌏🌍🌎🍃🌲🌳⛰️
A lil photoshoot in the woods a few years ago, modeling discontinued fashion stays. Hint: they’re just the 1780s pattern with less boning and the tabs cut off.
Ignoring the part where we seem to have skipped right to summer here in CO…let’s celebrate spring. You know where to find the patterns! Through March 31.
With Redthreaded shifting to just patterns and kits, and the start of a new full time job, our new order processing time is now 4 business days or less. Mondays will be the primary order processing day, with one more shipment on Thursdays or Fridays (depending on order volume and schedule). Thanks for your patience! I’m not Amazon, I’m just one person 🙂
Goodness! The final sale corsets really flew off the shelves 😱 there are a handful left oh the site—perhaps it’s your lucky day. Thanks for giving the final stock new homes and clearing up space for the next iteration of Redthreaded, and being so supportive of this shift in general.
Dearest friends,
When I began Redthreaded in a college apartment in the 2000s I could not have imagined the journey that would follow. I have been blessed to work with amazing folks all over the world. I am more grateful than I can possibly express.
But “the times they are a-changin.” Economic and social factors have contributed to a massive drop in historical corset sales over the past few years. Running a profitable handmade clothing business in the USA is more challenging than ever.
I’m changing too. There is a cultural expectation that a person should pick one thing and stick to it forever, anything less is failure. But the truth is we can change our stories any time. I went back to school and will begin working full time at an environmental non-profit in January.
This may sound like I’m about to announce that Redthreaded is closing entirely. Not so! This is just another iteration. Redthreaded is now solely a sewing pattern and kit business. The remaining Classic Corset stock is marked down as final sale. Custom orders will not reopen.
I know some will be angry or disappointed, but other corset companies will rise to fill this gap. And if you want to try a hand at making your own corsetry, Redthreaded is right here. I look forward to providing sewing patterns to the community for many years to come.
Otherwise, look for me amongst the plants, covered in prairie dust instead of thread.
~Cynthia
Hello folks! Let’s talk bootleg patterns.
We’ve heard rumors of knockoff patterns from other costume brands being sold at a certain high profile holiday event in the Bay Area.
If you see paper Redthreaded patterns being sold as new anywhere other than our website, Burnley and Trowbridge, or Renaissance Fabrics, these are likely illegally-printed copies. We do not have wholesale contracts with any other vendors. If they are in any other packaging than our standard gum-sealed white envelopes, they are DEFINITELY bootlegs.
The only place to buy our PDF patterns: our PDF pattern online shop or OUR Etsy page (both linked on our site).
If you come across bootleg patterns online or in person in a vendor hall, please let us know via email. If it’s an in-person event, photographic proof and the vendor’s name and contact info would be most helpful.
We take theft from small businesses very seriously.
Post says it all—be sure to check out the link on our website announcement featuring over 20 OTHER small business during this week! #optoutside #optout
There’s nothing like that just-moved level of workspace tidiness and organization! We’re making some shifts at the end of the year, more to be announced, but check out the new pattern and kit order fulfillment area 🥰 everything fits just so, it’s quite satisfying!
Doing some reorganizing here, and check it out: this is the first major historical garment project I ever sewed.
I was 14 or so, and labored through the most complicated Martha McCain 19th century simplicity pattern available (because I’ve always been like that, haha). My mom helped a lot, and I learned pattern matching (which I still didn’t get exactly right), fitting, and so many sewing and finishing techniques through this project. I used this wacky high end linen decorator fabric that I think we got from a yard sale.
I let it out quickly a few years later and apparently never re-taped those seams. Whoops! There’s no way I could fit into this now, but I keep it (and the huge 3 tier skirt) as a reminder of my first big project.
I actually met Martha a couple years later at Costume College, and ended up modeling for her and Andrea Schewe during a presentation. As part of that, I got to wear some of the original pattern packet sample gowns from this round of simplicity patterns. That felt very full-circle.
This was all over 2 decades ago. Time flies! I can’t believe I covered all of those buttons—talk about tedious.
