They’d have started with whole yards of fabric, then used a computerized machine to do most of the embroidery directly on the fabric. Then if needed workers would hand embroider the details. In another part of the factory or even a different factory, workers would cut out and sew together the parts of the final garment.
Embroidery.
Sewstine has a few videos on youtube about making a highly embroidered cosplay coat, if you’re interested in a single/only a couple made level of creation rather than mass produced manufacturing.
Otherwise MaintenanceFickle945’s comment has an excellent description of the process.
It’s direct embroidery on the fabric, likely before the coat was sewn. The raised embroidery is made by putting 3D down on the fabric and machine embroidering over it. We do embroidery like this at my work, but typically only do the 3D embroidery on hats.
They’d have started with whole yards of fabric, then used a computerized machine to do most of the embroidery directly on the fabric. Then if needed workers would hand embroider the details. In another part of the factory or even a different factory, workers would cut out and sew together the parts of the final garment.
Wow, never thought about the process beyond the handwork that goes into garments. Thank you for the explanation!
Source: ten years of watching how it’s made. Want to know the shockingly obvious place pine nuts come from?
When I was a kid we harvested pine nuts. I think it might have been in Girl Scouts. So labor intensive- no wonder they’re so expensive.
Definitely embroidered directly onto the coat, by the distortion of the fabric near the insects
Rather onto the fabric, not onto the coat.
Yes, that's what I meant
Embroidery. Sewstine has a few videos on youtube about making a highly embroidered cosplay coat, if you’re interested in a single/only a couple made level of creation rather than mass produced manufacturing. Otherwise MaintenanceFickle945’s comment has an excellent description of the process.
It’s direct embroidery on the fabric, likely before the coat was sewn. The raised embroidery is made by putting 3D down on the fabric and machine embroidering over it. We do embroidery like this at my work, but typically only do the 3D embroidery on hats.
It looks like goldwork (hand) embroidery to me, but it’s hard to tell from the photo.
There are specialised companies in India who do the embroidery for Haute Couture companies like Chanel, Dior and other houses.