Hoop Steel

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	Description	Product #	Unit	Price	Bulk Qty	Bulk Price
	hoop connectors, 11mm steel	00-8400-11	piece	$2.30	12	$20.70
	hoop connectors, 14mm steel	00-8400-14a 00-8400-14A	piece	$2.72	12	$24.48
	hoop steel 10mmX .5 mm hoopsteel 10mmX .5 mm	50-8405-10	meter	$3.06	30	$68.85
	hoop steel ends, plastic for 11mm	91-840E-11	pair	$1.59	10	$11.93
	hoopsteel 14 mmX .6mm	50-8406-14	meter	$4.00	50	$150.00
	hoopsteel 6 mmx.6mm	50-8406-06	meter	$2.20	100	$176.00
	spiral bone tips 6mm (1/4") bones tips 6mm (1/4") bones tips 6mm (1/4") Spiral bone tips 6mm (1/4")	91-8015-06	piece	$0.09	144	$11.02
	spiral bone tips 7/16" (11mm) spiral bone tips 7/16" (11mm) Spiral bone tips 7/16" (11mm)	91-8016-11	piece	$0.14	144	$17.14

Whether you're making a farthingale, hoop skirt, cage crinoline, bustle, tutu or even a mascot body, you’ll find a hoop steel product at Farthingales L.A. that will meet your needs. Some people even use our hoop steel to make corsets. We offer the widest selection of hoop steel in North America with several qualities and sizes.

Never made a hoop skirt? Never made bustle? Don't worry, we sell patterns too.

We have cage crinoline patterns, and farthingale patterns, Civil War and hoop skirt patterns and several bustle patterns. They can all be found on our costume pattern page. However, we don't have mascot patterns - but learn how to use our hoop steel and hoop steel connectors and you can probably create your own.

Read our Steel Class to learn more about steel products and how to choose which steel is correct for your project. You'll learn not only about the steel we sell but about other products which work with steel. It's well worth reading and will really help you understand the difference between the many products we stock.

Plastic Coated Hoop Steel/Crin Steel

	50-8406-06 white 6mm(¼”) 6mm wide X .6mm thick, this is the same quality as the spring steel bones 50-8206-series
This product was brought in, for those who build a lot of corsets, to limit waste. Rather than cutting pre-tipped spring steels and having pieces left over which are too small to use, cut just the lengths you need from this which is sold by the metre. It is not easy to cut and requires bolt cutters rather than tin snips. You can use "U" tips 91-8015-06 to tip the ends.
	50-8405-10 white 10mm(3/8") 10mm wide X .5mm thick
This is a light weight hoop steel better used for bustles and small hoops rather than large hoops (unless several hoops are incorporated). Easily cut with tin snips.
	50-8406-14 white 14mm(approx 5/8") 14mm wide X .55mm thick
This is our strongest hoop steel which is capable of supporting large hoops and heavy fabrics without collapsing. It cannot be used for the tighter curves required by a bustle.

NOTE: These hoop steels are made of spring steel and the ties that bind the coils should never be cut. Not only because you will have a major tangled mess on your hands but because they are coiled under pressure and cutting the ties is dangerous. Spring steel naturally wants to "spring" out straight.

Hoop Connectors

Due to many requests for something which could be used to attach the two cut ends of hoop steel when forming a "hoop", Farthingales decided to have a product made. This decision was in part due to demand and in part due to the fact that the hoop steel manufacturers had nothing to offer. One of our customers came up with the prototype and kindly sent us both a pattern and a sample. It is a rather costly venture but we are sure the end result will be worth the effort on our part and the cost on yours.

The principle behind the idea is to make the joining of hoop ends as simple as possible and to make them simple to disassemble as well. Present ways of connecting the ends seem to be either binding with medical tape or drilling a hole through both ends and stitching together. The tape eventually leaves a sticky residue and is not simple to remove and the drilling is not always an option, depending on tool availability and quality of steel.

These hoop "connectors" are a channel of stainless steel into which you insert one end of the cut steel before sliding it into the casing. The ends of the "connector" are shaped such that there are no corners to catch on the casing and the hoop steel easily slides through. When it gets to the end simply slide the other cut end of hoop steel into the empty end of the "connector" — Done.

00-8400-14 designed to fit 50-8406-14
00-8400-11 designed to fit 50-8405-10

See our Tips & Tricks section for instructions for using Hoop Connectors.

Hoop Steel Ends

Plastic tips to place on the ends of steel to cover the sharp cut edges and to offer the ability to sew the steel ends to fabric. Ideal for partial hoops such as the top layers of the Civil War hoop petticoat and for bustles, stitch the steel ends to a fabric foundation. They can also be used in boned bodices and corsets where wider steel is used. The tips blunt the end and can be stitched into place to avoid shifting.

91-840E-11 fits all 10mm and 11mm wide steels and are design to fit the following items:
50-8405-10 hoop steel
50-8125-11 German Plastic Bones
28-8001-96 11mm Wide Spiral Bones

See also Bone Casing Tape, which can be used with hoop steel.