Silvan Stretch Lace Bra Kit

Our Lace Bra Kits take the guesswork out of bra building by putting together everything you'll need to make a beautiful bra using your own pattern. If you need a pattern, we have a great selection on our Patterns Page, both paper and downloadable.

The word sylvan refers to a dark, peaceful wooded area which suggests a pleasant feeling. There's a second spelling of the word, which is the one we've chosen, just to make sure you aren't thinking about tutoring! 

The lace itself is a deep teal green, and has a bit of luster to it. It isn't shiny at all, it just has a subtle luminescence. We've paired it with our color Emerald, which is a beautiful teal green that is just a bit lighter. Our Featured Artist Nikki made her gorgeous Willowdale with a full lace overlay, and used the beautiful edge of the lace on the bottom of the band to create a semi-longline look. Don't you just love it?? As designed, all the fabrics and elastics for this bra kit will be Emerald. We tried to get a picture of the lace to give you an idea of its actual color. It's a hard one to photograph! Try Bra Tulle to let your fabric disappear behind your lace and allow the depth of textures to really appear. Finally, we found a perfect teal green leaf bra charm to add to all the kits while supplies last.

This bra kit features your choice of Microduoplex, Super Simplex, Tricot, Sheer Cup Lining, Bra Tulle or Microlycra as the base fabric. One kit contains everything that you need to make a bra and has enough fabric for 2 with many sizes if you pick up an extra bra finishing kit. To get the second bra with larger sizes, upgrade to the half yard of cup fabric and add a bra finishing kit.

A Silvan Stretch Lace Bra Kit contains:

Your panty will match your lace unless you specify otherwise. As always, feel free to choose your favorite elastics or narrow lace (please leave us a note if you don't see your choice!). You can also add a 9" square of absorbent fabric for your panty panel! You can find our collection of Waist Lace and Elastics here, and our collection of Leg Lace here.

Sewing Notes:
The strength of our microduoplex fabric, which makes it so wonderful for bras, also makes it hard to puncture with needles and pins. This is true with most duoplex fabrics. Use either fine silk pins or Wonder Clips to pin (I find Wonder Clips work best), and a Microtex 80/12 needle with a smooth thread like Superior Threads So Fine or Mettler Metrosene to make it easy to sew. In my testing, the So Fine thread and Microtex 80/12 won the challenge of the nicest stitch on microduoplex, and as long as my presser foot completely covered the seam allowance, I found it just as easy to sew as quilting cotton. I moved the needle to the right to set my seam allowance at 1/4" since my presser foot is a bit wide. I find it works well to saturate the lace with liquid starch and let it dry before laying out your pattern pieces and cutting your fabric. This stiffens the lace until you wash it and the lace has enough body to behave well in the sewing process.
We offer all these pins, clips, needles and thread here on our site.