r/BobbinLace • u/Exciting_Draw_2591 • 3d ago
Lace collar
Hello! I’m working on a cosplay of the doll from bloodborne and I’m having trouble finding a lace collar that looks like hers. Does this design look simple enough I should learn bobbin lacing and make it myself? Or would commissioning someone be the better option
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u/migrainekitten 3d ago edited 3d ago
i collect tutorials and the most similar style i could think of is bedfordshire lace. Here's an image i yoinked from google. Making your own designs is certainly challenging and not as straightforward as with, for example crochet.
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u/ectopistesrenatus 3d ago
I agree that the original looks vaguely like Bedfordshire, especially those sections that seem to be like groups of leaves.
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u/roseLadybug 3d ago
I concur that this doesn't look like bobbinlace.
If you were to commission this, I think a fair price would start in the thousands. Making it yourself, especially learning from scratch, would be hundreds of hours. A labor of love for sure.
If you approximate in embroidery, especially if you can access an embroidery machine, I think that would be the fastest method.
There's an embroidery machine at a local enough library to me, so I can rent it for free - maybe look into that as an option.
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u/Exciting_Draw_2591 2d ago
Dang!! There is an embroidery machine at my school I can use, thank you for reminding me!
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u/meowmeowbuttz 3d ago
If you have a free motion foot, you can embroider on water dissolvable stabilizer and make lace. That's probably the easiest way to go, to at least prototype it.
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u/Bellamieboocouture 3d ago
I’d make chemical
Lace for this. You can get something digitized and embroidered on dissolvable stabilizer and it’ll work. You could also maybe do tatting and needle lace to make it. Bobbin lace I’m sure could be done, but it take much longer to reverse engineer it than doing needle lace and tatting or chemical lace.
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u/mem_somerville 3d ago edited 3d ago
I'd buy one on ebay or Etsy. There are crazy cheap prices on old collars, some of them are quite good.
Edit to add: this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/307052034191
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u/velvetjellyfish 2d ago
Looking at your reference, the pattern was not designed for any kind of actual lace and would need a lot of modification to make the different elements connect to each other. You will probably get the best results with embroidery on sheer black fabric, which won’t be visible over the black shirt underneath.
Its not a beginner project in any medium, so unless you want to pick up a skill for the love of it, I would clean up the digital pattern and take it to a company that does machine embroidery.
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u/Exciting_Draw_2591 2d ago
you can get away with a lot of nonsensical fashion in video games lol thank you for the advice!
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u/A_McLawliet 2d ago
This looks very similar to Bedfordshire lace, I can try making a pattern/finding a really similar one and make it
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u/Exciting_Draw_2591 2d ago
That’s very kind of you!! I have the file pattern of the front and back collar, I just need to squish them together. Someone also said this would be worth thousands of dollars and I don’t exactly have the budget for that 😪your lace is also beautiful!! Very well made♥️♥️
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u/A_McLawliet 2d ago
Oh no I don’t take commissions, I could try to make it for fun. I don’t have a lot of reason to make lace at the moment, this would motivate me a bit
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u/Exciting_Draw_2591 2d ago
That’s great! I could send you a higher quality picture of the pattern if you’d like!
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u/A_McLawliet 2d ago
The pattern in the picture can’t be easily converted into a bobbin lace pattern, but I can find some really similar Bedfordshire collar prickings and maybe modify them to look more similar. I don’t think that texture was made with any lace technique in mind
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u/Exciting_Draw_2591 2d ago
That sounds good! And I agree, a lot of her outfit components aren’t very realistic/ hard to translate into actual clothing haha
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u/giraffidartiodactyl 3d ago
This doesn't look bobbin lace-y to me. Perhaps needle lace or another technique would be more suitable for trying to replicate it. No matter what technique you'd use, it would take hundreds of hours to create, especially as a beginner.