Dressmaker lace trim and accessories

Accessories go on after the last seam: lace, trim, bows, buttons, brooches, feathers and the rest, placed by hand on the mannequin. 22 commission cards ask for a specific kind, and lace trim is the one with a catch.

A strawberry-print bodice with a pink satin bow, pink lacing and red lace edging, a Sewing Complete box with a Finish Dress button, and accessory icons with counts down the right. — Accessories on a finished bodice: a bow, lacing and lace edging. The panel on the right lists accessories with a count beside each.

Build 443: fewer clicks and easier trim editing

Place and extend

Try Fast Trim Placement for fewer clicks. Drag to rotate the mannequin while placing trim. Click an end node to select a strand, then click it again to extend.

Adjust and repeat

The duplicate button starts another piece with the same height, size and tilt. It does not promise a mirrored copy of the full path. Trim height can now go below zero.

Selecting an accessory hides other items’ pins. The rotation gizmo has movement buttons for small adjustments; hold Ctrl to rotate in the accessory’s frame.

If old lace now clips or folds differently, recheck its height and tilt: the update changed trim placement and some default tilt offsets. Cuffs remain a work in progress, so this is not a guarantee that every clipping problem is fixed. Use the new zoom and pan controls.

How much lace trim is still missing?

CommissionLace Trim already counted (cm)

Studious Motivation requires 100 cm of Lace Trim.

Enter the length counted on the card, not how much you bought.

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Lace and accessory quick answers

What you need	Start here
Flowers or Elegant stops rising	More copies of the same accessory give diminishing returns. Before spending more, check the score ceiling and fabric repair options.
Where to buy lace trim	Open the accessory corner of the International Emporium and filter Type to Lace Trim.
Why 100cm stays at zero	Lace fabric does not count. Place Lace Trim accessories on the sewn dress; the card counts the length laid down. Check what counts.
Remove a strand	Click a pin, then the X in its panel. Delete removes the connected piece. Removal controls.
Resize it	Finish the strand first, then click a red pin to reopen its panel. Resizing and floating lace.
Flip which way it faces	Remove the strand and draw it in the opposite direction. See the direction diagram.

Browse only Lace Trim in the accessory databaseCompare prices, unlock ranks and style tags before you buy.

Why are accessories huge in the sketchbook?

The sketchbook uses fixed-size accessory samples. You can move and rotate those samples, but they do not have the size controls used on the sewn dress. A large button on the paper does not set the size of the button you will place on the mannequin.

On the paper: plan the look

Drag an accessory sample to arrange it. Hover over it to reveal its rotation handle. Keep the sample as a reminder of the item you want; there is no sketch-sample shrink control.

Sketchbook controls

On the sewn dress: set the size

Select the placed decoration and use its size controls. For lace or trim, finish the strand first, then select a red pin to reopen the editing panel.

Open the resize and removal instructions

Open sketchbook with a dress drawing and fabric samples on the paper, and Fabric and Accessories tabs in the inventory. — The sketchbook is the planning screen. Decorations are fitted and resized later on the sewn dress.

Looking for matching colours? Find accessories with green in the name, or browse gold names. Check each icon: a colour word does not describe every colour in a multicoloured decoration.

Lace trim that does not count

Alice’s Studious Motivation asks you to use 100cm of lace trim. Only accessories the game tags as lace trim count toward it. To check, filter the items for Lace trim: the ones that show up are the only ones that count. How the centimetres add up strand by strand is on Studious Motivation.

A patch fixed some lace trim items that were not tagged as lace trim, so a lace that did not count before may count now. The rest of that patch is on patch notes.

Placement keys

On the placement bar	Label
Z	Zoom
Q E	Rotate
Place	Place the accessory
Finish Placement	End placing the current item
Shift	Place Multiple
Shift + click a placed item	Copy a regular accessory when another is in inventory; not a trim strand
Left Ctrl + R	Toggle the rotation gizmo for regular accessories

These are the labels on the placement bar at the bottom of the screen; the mannequin and camera controls, which the game does not label, are on the controls page. For full X, Y and Z rotation on detailed decorations, turn on Accessory Rotation Gizmo in the settings. On a Steam Deck there is no controller support yet, so map a button to zoom (Z or middle click): see platforms and Steam Deck.

Select, rotate, then copy a decoration

Select with a click and release. Click an unselected button, bow or brooch without dragging. Its editing panel appears. Dragging can pick it up instead.
Rotate with the handles. Press Left Ctrl + R to show the rotation gizmo, then use its handles. Press the shortcut again to hide them. This applies to regular accessories; lace and piping use strand pins.
Hold Shift and click to copy. Keep another of that accessory in your inventory first. The copy keeps its size, rotation relative to the fabric surface and distance above that surface. Place it where you want the repeat. This does not duplicate a whole trim strand.
Keep the original in place. Use the panel or rotation handles after selecting it. Clicking the selected accessory again picks it up; dragging it moves it too. Before a Shift-click, check that a spare remains in inventory.

For repeated eyes or buttons, size and rotate the first piece before copying it. Turn the mannequin to check how each copy sits on the curve of the fabric. For an outline drawn in piping, start with the one-metre flower exercise instead.

To inspect a finished detail without grabbing an accessory, switch to the pin-free Patterns view, then return to Accessories to edit.

If a small decoration is hard to select, zoom with Ctrl + mousewheel before editing. Holding the input is different from tapping it.

A feather, bow or applique sticks out of the dress

For a single placed accessory, click and release to select it, then hover the panel buttons until you find Reset position. This clears its added rotation and lift relative to the fabric surface. It keeps the size and the spot where you placed it; it does not send the decoration back to its first location.

Reset before trying more rotations. Reset position gives you a surface-facing starting point. A decoration can still project outward because of its shape.
Turn it a little, then check from the side. Use Rotate up/down or the rotation gizmo. Raise and Lower change the distance from the fabric; resizing changes its size.
Copy after the first one sits correctly. Hold Shift and click the placed item when another is in stock. If it sits differently on the next curve, adjust that copy separately.

A drawn strand of lace, strawberries, tassels or piping has different controls: its panel uses tilt, height and width, without the regular item’s Reset position or Duplicate. Redraw a strand that faces the wrong way; compare the two editing panels.

Removing, resizing and floating lace

To	Do this
Remove a whole trim strand	Click the strand or a pin to select it, then click Remove item (the X) in its panel. Right-clicking an end pin removes that pin, not the whole strand; a middle pin does not come off that way.
Remove a single bow, feather or button	Right-click the placed item to return it to inventory. This is separate from deleting a trim pin.
Resize a trim	Finish the trim first, then click one of its red pins to open the same panel.
Stop lace floating off the dress	Raise the trim until it starts to flatten, then tilt it up or down until it lies against the fabric.
Mirror one side onto the other	The game has no mirror or symmetry tool, so place each side by hand. The unofficial ModLoader adds symmetry: see mods.
Copy a length of lace	Use the Build 443 duplicate button to start another trim piece with the same height, size and tilt. Draw its new path; the button is not a confirmed full-path or symmetry copy.

Strawberries pointing up? Redraw the line in reverse

A fruit-print skirt with strawberry-shaped trim pointing upward along a curved hem line. — The strawberry trim faces up along the drawn line. The fruit print on the fabric is separate.

If Tilt does not give you the direction you want, select the strand, remove it with the panel’s X, and draw the same edge starting from the opposite end. The drawing direction also changes which way decorative trim faces.

This is a strand operation. Use Reset position for a single placed feather or applique, and find trim by type before buying a replacement. Reversing the line changes its orientation, not its accessory type.

Flip lace by drawing the other way

Direction illustration: reversing the drawing direction flips the edge. Remove the strand and redraw it; place the two sides of a bodice in opposite directions.

Lace faces the way you drag it. Drawing left to right instead of right to left reverses it; if it already faces the wrong way, remove the strand and draw it again in the other direction. The rest of the mannequin controls are on the controls page.

Tassels and bells hanging upside down

Hanging trims follow the drawing direction as lace does. If tassels or bells point up, remove the trim and draw it again the other way. Or draw it first as a short line slanting downward, then move the pins until the line is straight.

Checking the look while you trim

In Build 443, selecting an accessory hides every other item’s pins. You can also disable the red outline. Drag to rotate the mannequin while placing trim; right-drag pans and Ctrl + mousewheel zooms.

For a preview without active edits, switch the side panel to Patterns, then return to Accessories to carry on. Outline versus pins and animation · Camera controls.

Cards that ask for an accessory

Biographer's Interview for Edith: Brooch: at least 1
Studious Motivation for Alice: Use 100cm of Lace Trim
Pigeon Adoption for Dorothy: Jewel: at least 1, Brooch: at least 1
Phoenix Costume for Edith: Feather 4
Selafie's Wish for Selafie: Bow 3
Crowning Glory for Adora: Use 10cm of Trim, Use 10cm of Lace Trim
Exotic Moth for Vivian: Tassel 5
A-maze-ingly Lost for Fiona: Bell 3
Floral Romance for Prudence: Flower 3
Good Aunt for Prudence: Bow 5
Precious Pigeon for Dorothy: Tassel 5
Beloved Ox for Fiona: Bow 2
Parental Guidance for Alice: Jewel: at least 10
Gala Supporter for Dorothy: Use 20cm of Trim
Another Encore for Edith: Jewel: at least 5
Cat Amongst Pigeons for Edith: Feather: at least 5
World Stage for Edith: Feather: at least 10, Jewel: at least 5
Opera Night for Fiona: Bow: at least 5, Use 10cm of Lace Trim
Maid of Honour for Priya: Bow: at least 3
Painted Dream for Prudence: Flower: at least 5
Dark Emissary for Vivian: Use 10cm of Trim, Jewel: at least 3
Midnight Warrior for Vivian: Jewel: at least 10

The two accessory achievements

Trim and Proper needs more than 50m of trim on a single dress, and Harder than it Seams needs more than 300 accessories on one dress. Both are about volume, which is where Place Multiple helps. Their share of players is on all 32 achievements, and whether one dress can earn both, with the costs, is on 300 accessories, 50m of trim, 5,000 gold.

Make painting and character dresses with trim, appliques and a planned colour palette.

Search the accessory database for the tag score and cost of each accessory.