Comments on: Tips & Tricks: Corset Lace Tipping

By: Feather Tippetts

Feather Tippetts — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:58:13 +0000

On thicker cord, I start about 3/4″ – 1″ down from the cut end, run a needle with a double line of thread (knotted on the end) through the cord and then wrap it around the cord tightly to almost the cut end. Then I tie it off to the cord and without cutting the thread use the needle to pass through the tipping tube pulling the cord attached to the thread. This allows me to pull the cord through the tube to just a bit farther than the cut end or just past the thread wrapping. I then cut both the cord and the tube to make a nice flush end. Heat and shrink and you’re done! I typically cut my tube to 1″ and then cut it flush to 5/8 or 3/4 for my finished tip.

By: corsetmaking

corsetmaking — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:41:36 +0000

Use a lighter or flame and heat up the end, then immediately roll the end in your finger tips so it squishes together, then you can roll it in. Otherwise, I have also done the first part then taken some thread knotted the end and put it through the end to help ease it through the tube.

By: kaye vines

kaye vines — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:56:43 +0000

I bought some of this tipping with the last order I placed. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to “roll” the lace end into the tipping tube. Help!!!