Gear-shaped doilies

[full_metal_ox]

In the course of a fanficrants  discussion of Historical Research Failure*,  fairest1  raises an intriguing possibility: would it be possible to make a lace doily in the shape of a gear? Such a challenge might well be a fait accompli for someone in this community, and photos would be all the better.

*This promptly yielded a Metaquote, which in turn gave birth to a

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[softpaw]

Now, I'm only a novice at Bobbin lace, and not able to draft a pattern with it yet. But I do not see why a lace gear doily wouldn't be possible.

[weatherglass]

I've definitely seen some, including a few basic gear doily patterns which people were putting together into scarves and shawls and things, plus one utterly amazing gear-shaped knitted shawl, and a pair of drapey gear-shaped lace wrist cuffs. Look on ravelry.com; using steampunk as a search term will turn up everything I've mentioned. There's at least one steampunk-inspired forum there, as well.

Ah. Here are the crocheted cogs, which are the most doily-like of what I've mentioned:
http://vintagestitchorama.blogspot.com/2008/09/crocheted-cogs.html

[full_metal_ox]

Those are beautiful (and the design looks as if it could also be readily adapted into a T'ai Chi or tomoe motif); thank you for the link.

[threerings]

Ta Da:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lace-gear

There's also this but it's the size of a shawl, so not exactly a doily.

[softpaw]

You need an account to see those.

[threerings]

Unfortunately, I couldn't find outside links for them.

[hannahsarah]

TotusMel on Etsy has some wonderfully steamy gear shaped pieces http://www.etsy.com/listing/69138771/asymmetric-sepia-tatted-one-of-a-kind
http://www.etsy.com/listing/17234230/tatted-lace-gear-set

Crochet lends itself very well to gear shapes, too
http://www.etsy.com/listing/29848658/clearance-crocheted-cogs-earrings

I'm sure that you could come up with a good pattern just by doing some more image searches.

[ext_450146]

I thought of Totus Mel as well.

[full_metal_ox]

Thanks for steering me to the links (and the reference to tatting--admittedly with the word intended in its original context--evokes the practice of "tit-tatting", the newspaper blogging subculture of Salmagundi.)

[ada_doom]

Don't forget these:

http://vintagestitchorama.blogspot.com/2008/09/crocheted-cogs.html

Just need to either scale up a bit for a doily, or do a motif based pattern with multiple gears.

[full_metal_ox]

And thank you for the link.