#cosplay embroidery

[telekineticmaniac]

EVER WANTED TO LEARN HOW TO EMBROIDER YOUR COSPLAYS?? THIS IS THE VIDEO FOR YOU!! Wow this is such an old video but I still get questions about embroidery al the time, so might as well try to continue to share the information around. 

[emiink]

Made some Star Trek pants because I have a problem!!!! Had a lot of fun with this project and I’m gonna wear it everydayomgeheheheh :D !

A very special thanks to @strawberfolk for all their gracious help and for cradling me in their arms when the sewing machine literally attacked me at gunpoint

[sennedjem]

COLLAR IS DONE AAHHHH, so I had to do a side by side with the game model!

Almost 50 hours of actual embroidery, plus roughly another 10 for the border stitching details, all done by hand. Whew! But look at it, I’m so damn proud!

I hadn’t initially planned on lining this, but now I think I will for a more finished feel. So that’s next, then sewing up the sleeves/sides, and then it’s back to embroidery hell for the hem xD And in the meantime, I need to get back to the stitching details on the trousers, because I can only do a little of that at a time before my hands start screaming at me.

[misseandc]

Another hand embroidered panel of All Might that I think is especially relevant with the events of the past few days ❤️

Time taken to embroider: 27 hours

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Cosplay of zhang qiling张起灵 (nickname xiaoge小哥) from dao mu bi ji 盗墓笔记 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles by xu lei, one of the most beloved characters (paper people) in chinese fandoms (the coser is 小杰), and the book was written in 2006 and isn't finished yet and is still being serialized. Chinese fans voted for "which character from books you consider that won't affect your feelings and impression of her/him/them at all, no matter how badly the movie or TV version fails" and "The character that most convinced you they were real", and zhang qiling won the first place. Many book fans think the only successful live-action zhang qiling is cast by xiao yuliang肖宇梁 in Ultimate Note终极笔记.

mianhuawawa (popular chinese fandom merch, cute fluffy dolls having a real-life sense of companionship) of zhang qiling (cr: 支仓没睡)

A navy blue hoodie, black pants, boots, an ancient chinese dao, and a qilin麒麟 tattoo have become his trademark.

[costume-bug]

Wip of the embroidery on my Mollymauk vest

First time trying out ribbon embroidery and absolutely loved it!

[mostafagazasblog]

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[forgingtheblade]

WOO YEAH OH YEAH CLOAK TIME BABY

i should have posted this before the beadwork one but i forgot so you’re getting it here

my primary goal with the cloak was creating something elegant and intense. i wanted it to look weighty and give it a lot of attention.

i started with a velvet upholstery fabric because it has a very particular stiffness and weight to it, and because i thought the crinkle texture it had was interesting without being overwhelming. the whole cloak is a massive half circle to create volume without it sitting too far forward on my shoulders and covering too much of the front of the costume.

the inside lining features a golden bug wing embroidery. i achieved this with couching two different weights of metallic threads. my thought process with this was that it’s the elytra—both a nod to technoplane and UHC, and a reference to how elytra in the real world are the outer shell of beetle wings!

after attaching the lining to the outside of the cloak i added a black and gold trim down the front edge. it originally had rectangular beads on it but i ended up taking those off for a cleaner look.

i also briefly toyed with the idea of sandwiching this beaded trim into the hem above the fur trim but a friend pointed it out to me that it would be really annoying to detangle the beads from the fur, and I had other hem details I wanted to add later down the line so I nixed it.

i always knew that the AE banner was going to hang from the back, but I also wanted the collar itself to be huge. I played with stuffing it or including shoulder pads under the cloak to balance out the silhouette of the cloak and the head, but I think it ended up being just fine without either of those details.

i did a LOT of handsewing on the cloak. all of the fur is hand sewn in place, as well as the trims and embroidery. my cat decided that she was obsessed with the cloak on the days i brought it home to work on in my lap. i still have to use the fur for another part of the project, but if i have enough left after that i plan to make her a cat bed using leftover fabrics.

for the clasps on the front, i knew the chain wasn’t going to be load bearing. while i’ve made cloaks like that in the past they were always made of much lighter materials. if this chain was actually holding weight, it would pull everything up into my neck and be very painful. i wanted them to be decorative, though!

i 3d modeled and printed these medallions based on the antarctic empire motif. i sanded them thoroughly and primed with plastidip before airbrushing them in gold. the “aging” was accomplished just using a drybrushed brown on top of that. for the blue, i knew i wanted to emulate the look of poured resin (which i would have just used if mine had not gone bad), which would be emulating the look of enameled metal. i ended up using clear gloss varnish mixed with a few drops of acrylic inks, to preserve translucency.

i ultimately installed a crossbody strap to actually bear the weight of this already incredibly heavy cloak.. that i still plan to add several more pieces of beaded appliqué to.

i’m very happy with how it all came together, i think the look strikes exactly the weight and ornamentation i was looking for, especially once i actually add the roses to the hem.

yay cloaks!!

[mimistitchcraft]

Goldwork embroidery from my Eowyn gown. Never posted this to tumblr!

[heimeldat]

About half finished?

View from the back

[womans-armor-workshop]

Miguel O'Hara lingerie set I've dreamed about. I'm really proud of how it turned out. Especially circuit-like hand embroidery

[ghost-of-hallownest]

leif gijinka concept

back view

[sennedjem]

23 hours of hand embroidery later - I have finished one cuff

[misseandc]

Here's what all those embroidery panels I've posted are for...

I havent really fully explained here what exactly the cosplay I'm making with my panels are for so I wanted to share this here to give yall a more in depth look at my crazy cosplay idea! ❤️

[lt-kaollumn]

i feel like im breaking some secret tumblr rule showing my face but i can trust you guys? right? right?

Look i made a vulcan robe it took months of hand-sewing cause i dont have a sewing machine

hand embroidered! and then i met jonathan frakes at a convention! i got a picture with him but it’s Just For Me

based on spock’s kolinahr robes from the movies

[costume-bug]

After all those wip photo’s, I’d say it’s time for the finished result!!!

So here it is!!

Definitely one of my favourite things I’ve ever made!!!