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borninwinter81 · 2 months

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Cyber goth dress + my favourite way to make patches

I thrifted this dress a couple of weeks ago for £1. I believe it started life as some sort of costume, possibly a sexy firefighter, but the fabric is really good quality cotton, and I thought it had some cybergoth potential with the yellow and reflective bits. I also really like the metal fastenings.

I already had a high-viz coat in my wardrobe from when I used to go bicycling more often, so I was able to steal more reflective bits from that. Not yet sure what I'll do with them, probably cut interesting shapes and glue or sew them on. Photos with and without flash.

And then yesterday I got a half meter of cotton fabric for £1 which is an almost exact colour match, so I can make some stencilled patches.

I already had fabric paint at home, so this entire outfit has only cost me £2! Cybergoth clothing is usually super expensive.

There are lots of tutorials for making stencilled patches on YouTube, (@rattusrattus3 has some excellent ones) but I lack patience and don't like cutting out intricate pieces, especially for lettering, so I had the idea to use alphabet stickers. You can pick these up really cheap from your local pound shop or dollar store depending on where you're from. I think mine were 40p a packet.

Stick them to your fabric, use fabric paint and a sponge, then when you peel the stickers off you'll have the words in relief. You can go thicker than I have here to make the surrounding area totally opaque, but I like the edges being messy and faded out. These are both song titles from cyber/industrial bands that I like.

Here are some other examples that I've done in the past. These were all done with pound shop spray paint which isn't ideal for fabric, but it's cheap! You'll also get more of the original fabric colour showing through with this kind of paint, which is nice.

If you're using black fabric, gold or silver paint will generally work better than white. These are all Devin Townsend song lyrics.

The only negative to this method for some people may be that the letters will be very uniform, but I like that. And if you want to you can space them irregularly to break things up a bit. Or you might be able to find more interestingly shaped alphabet stickers than I did!

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incinerated · 5 months

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#GUNKJUNK #ETSY #upcycled fashion #CRIPPLEPUNK #DIY CRAFTS #HELLFIRE FOUNDRY #BRUTAL WORKS #RIVETHEAD #RIVETHEAD FASHION #GOTH #DIY PUNK

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heavenly-angell · 8 months

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#fashion #pink #coquette #lana del rey #girlblogging #girlblogger #ldr #coquette angel #coquette dollete #coquette aesthetic #dolletecore #dollete aesthetic #dollcore #girlhood #city girl #girly #goth coquette #bows #upcycle

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hometoursandotherstuff · 8 months

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Group member Rocky's daughter runs a funeral home and her little dog goes with her as an emotional support dog for the clients. So, Rocky thought that he needed his own little office and made this bed from a discontinued casket display and thrift store materials.

Gothic Home & Garden group member

#goth dog bed #casket upcycle #other stuff

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rosieandthemoon · 4 months

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Purse I made for a friend (via)

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msnogood · 5 months

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Clown Angel Patch on Sweater

or if AnPanMan died what he'd become.

Felted wool patch with some stitches. On a soft-as-cloud old cashmere sweater.

Adopt it here.

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scythepuppy · 10 months

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16" Spider eye puppy build-a-bear upcycled custom plush.

SOLD

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decentmonster · 4 months

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another record to add to the record wall! this one I painted/sculpted using air dry clay for the craters, & acrylic paint mixed with salt for the stony texture.

#diy #painted vynyl #painted records #sculpting #painting #acrylic #my art #punk #vulture culture #grunge #goth #recycling #crafts #upcycling

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vampryn · 5 months

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out here on my sustainable shiiiet!! i thrifted the dress ($13) and have started upcycling it by cutting up squares of scrap fabric, painting eyes on them, and sewing them on!! i have a bit more work to do filling out the space with eyeballs, and im going to replace the buttons, but im happy so far!!

#diy #diy goth #sustainable fashion #upcycle #me #inspired by bas kosters from aaages ago #obviously a loose inspo #the one I'm inspired by is a fabric of realistic eyes

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equinoxians · 3 months

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🌈 elegant gothic choker with skeleton charm!✨

item is now available in our shop, Equinoxian @ ko-fi.com! purchasing this item supports a disabled intersex trans lesbian who is homeless & struggling with housing!

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borninwinter81 · 2 months

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Replacing my bag strap

Unlike many of my clothes and accessories this bag isn't thrifted. It's a bag by Jawbreaker that I absolutely love the look of, it has multiple pockets, tons of space inside, and is clearly great quality as I've had it for over 10 years and it's almost good as new. It's the only handbag I own, and I've no desire to get a new one.

However the one bit I've had to replace multiple times is the shoulder strap, since that's the bit that gets most wear and tear.

It originally had the kind of strap which clips on, but the problem with those is that after years of metal rubbing against metal, eventually it wears away to the point where the clip is thin enough that it snaps. Last couple of times I just put a new clip on, however this time not only were the clips worn away but so were the d-rings you're supposed to attach them to, so I did a more thorough job.

First of all I unpicked the stitching attaching the d-rings to the bag and replaced them with these large rectangular ones. I always save metal hardware from clothing items I mod or that are finally old and worn enough to be thrown away, and I think these came from a skirt. Happily I had two the same, so I used bits of the old strap which weren't too badly worn to make loops to sew them on.

I sewed them by hand with thick top-stitch thread doubled over, and I even did those criss-cross stitching lines to make them extra secure.

I then went to a nearby charity shop hoping to find a cheap bag I could steal the strap from, but even better, I came across this belt, the construction of which was extremely similar to the detailing already on the bag. It was £1, way cheaper than a replacement strap from ebay, which I have also bought in the past.

I didn’t want to cut the buckle off because the belt fabric would fray, so I unpicked the stitching around the buckle instead, and put the buckle away in my crafting box to hopefully reuse in the future - like I said, I save everything.

I wanted the eyelets on the belt to be visible as they match the rest of the eyelets on the bag, so I put the belt through the rectangle and folded it over as far as I could while still showing all the eyelets, then sewed it shut. Again, I did multiple rows of stitching to keep it secure, and I also oversewed down both sides.

I don't have a sliding buckle that would enable me to adjust the strap length, but I never adjust my bag strap anyway, so I just put the strap over my shoulder, adjusted it to a length that I liked, and sewed that end together too. This was a long belt so I ended up doubling it over quite far, but that's good as it will make this section of the new strap extra thick, so hopefully it's extra strong.

And there we go, it looks as if I bought it like this!

#goth diy #goth sewing #Goth bag #gothic fashion #goth aesthetic #goth crafting #diy #diy sewing #gothic diy #mending #sewing #reduce reuse recycle #no waste #alternative #alternative fashion #goth upcycling #upcycle #upcycling

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incinerated · 5 months

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"A MASK REVEALS IN THE EYES, THE FACE THAT LIES HIDDEN WITHIN."

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INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH ALL THE TROUBLE OF AN INTRODUCTORY DM FOR COMMISSION, YOU MAY PUT THE ORDER THROUGH ON OUR SHOP AT THE HELLFIRE FOUNDRY ON ETSY. YOU HAVE THE OPTION OF CHOOSING LEATHER OR SYNTHETIC STRETCHY FABRIC IN A FULL HOOD.

HALF MASKS ARE HALF PRICE, BUT MAY BE THEIR OWN LISTING LATER ON.

EVERYTHING IN THE STORE IS 25% OFF UNTIL THE 29TH, USING THE CODE "BLESSEDISVOID."

#GUNKJUNK #HELLFIRE FOUNDRY #ALT FASHION #DIY PUNK #RIVETHEAD #GIMP MASKS #UPCYCLED FASHION #GOTH FASHION #DIY CRAFTS #DIY FASHION

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full-metal-femme · 5 months

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Check it out! First set of crystal bullet hair spikes made and ready to go 🥰

How they work, what they look like, and where to get them ;)

#daughter of mercury metalworks #jewellery #jewerly #bullet jewelry #upcycled #craft #alternative #handmade #goth #custom #braid spikes #hair spikes #small business

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elfelevencloud · 14 days

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Goth princess

With custom pants I made

#beauty #self love #positivity #beautiful #natural body #self appreciation #me #bodypositivism #sexy #mine #soft goth #soft girl #corset #lace corset #selfmade #upcycled #upcycling #small artist #artisits on tumblr

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feehippielove · 8 months

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♡✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡°✩ପ(๑•ᴗ•๑)ଓ ♡✮ ⋆ ˚｡𖦹 ⋆｡ ♡

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brazenedminstrel · 8 months

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Made something I’ve been wanting to make for a long long while now! For all your morbid craft needs: claw marks, wounds, not terribly gorey scratches. Whatever you wanna call them.

Someday I’ll make a version with more painted or beaded blood but these came out so well already.

All fabric were little throwaway bits from the thrift I work at. We don’t sell pieces smaller than 3ft squares, but employees can take them home during sorting.

#things i made #diy #diy clothing #goth diy #gothic #crafts #sewing #handsewing #hand sewing #upcycling #thrifting

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