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You could use ink & stamps (which you can make yourself out of sponges or that stuff they have at the craft store (I forget what it's called)). For ink you can use either regular print-making ink, or fabric paints of some kind. Or, if you decide not to follow the picture exactly, you could put some sort of gold lace on.

You could stencil it on. Make a stencil and spray on gold paint.

There's also sewing machines that can do custom embroidery. They're pretty frikin expensive, though, so I'd pay someone else to do it, or find someone that has one and ask them to do it for you...

On the plus side, since it is embroidery, rather then stencils, it will last longer, and look more professional.

If you want to play Princess Peach for a long, long time, I'd suggest embroidery. If it's a once or twice thing, go with the stencil.

This will only work if your fabric is something that can be heat pressed,
like cotton or a cotton/poly for example.

Look up vinyl plotters on Ebay or go to a print shop/sign shop and see if they have one. Then design your pattern in Illustrator or inkscape, then it will be a vector that can be used to design the cut on the plotter. If you bought the plotter (About $250 for a cheap one) or if you went to a sign shop, they should have something like Spectra that heat presses onto fabric. The plotter will cut it out automatically and then you peel the excess away, then heat it with a heat press to 302-304 degrees F. If your using a shop they'll do most of that for you, if you're doing it they're are better instructions for this than I just gave you. They should have gold spectra or they can order it and it should ship in about a day. At most shops it shouldn't run more than $10 to do this since you brought in the material, but who knows, that's just how the shop does it where I work.

If you have any questions about anything I said let me know.
Good luck, I'd love to see it when you finish, I've never done a cosplay before but I always admire when others do it. mrgreen

You're quite welcome.

I thought it was complicated when I first started working there, then fell in love with it and even eventually bought a plotter (which I'm not even recommending you do yet until you think you can handle using one, for now I'd probably design the file and take it to a shop) They're great tools, they cut whatever you tell them to automatically. If you replace the blade with a pen or marker it will DRAW automatically. We tested it by tracing a drawing I made in illustrator and it draws it perfectly!

The best thing about designing the file as a vector is that you can use it to make hundreds of the thing you need. Once you make that file you can make it any size big or small, but not too tiny, probably no smaller than 2" high or it cuts weird.

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Or.... you could learn screen printing. Not too hard either, but this would be if you needed to make a lot of something too. Kits at AC Moore (or JoAnn Fabrics maybe, I haven't checked) run about $45 I think. But you'd have to order gold ink.

Plenty of tutorials on this online too, I'm not great at giving directions.

I agree... this is probably the easiest and most precise. smile

I'd also say embroidery as that looks like what would've actually been used on the dress, but a stencil would be much easier!

If you don't absolutely need the design to be exactly the same, I'm betting you could find a swirly-patterned gold on pink fabric at your local fabric store. Look for dupatta satin, it comes in lots of colors and usually has a border on one or both edges.