If I could get my paws on your information about alternative forms of boning, I'd be a happy girl. I'm trying to do a set of 1830s stays (and, er, everything else) and there's SO little information about that period, plus I've never corded anything before! The next adventure will be coaxing someone at the blacksmithing/machine shop (hippie college: it is full of interesting things) to make me a busk...