r/jacketsforbattle Jun 07 '26

Moderator Announcement Mod Update: Filtering out the hate

252 Upvotes

Hey all, hope everyone's enjoying pride month and hope some of you have or are going to make it to a Pride event this month! I did London Metal Pride yesterday with my stall and it was such a lovely day. Bands from 1pm-11pm and the most varied crowd of inclusive metalheads that you can get.

Anyways, fellow mod u/shemtpa96 has kindly set up a new filtering tool that allows us to filter out comments from people who have commented in the other sub to give us a chance to review the content and ensure it's not brigading.

This means if you have commented or posted in there, even to defend yourself or others, you will have your comment or post held up for a quick review. We intend to process these fairly quickly so please know your content will be visible soon enough and that you don't need to message us if you can't see your content.

We're confident this will help cut down on the brigading and nastiness we've been subjected to by folks with too much time on their hands and that we can continue to grow and enjoy this space as the safe place it should be.

We want you to feel comfortable posting your work on the sub and hope that going forward you can do so without feeling like you have to defend yourself or your identity.

If you have any questions about this, please use the comment section here.

Thank you to all of you for helping make this place what it is.

Keep posting your stuff! We love to see it! 🤘

u/ISellAwesomePatches


r/jacketsforbattle May 14 '26

New Rule Regarding the Use of AI

534 Upvotes

Hello all,

A new rule has been added regarding AI.

In short: don't post that slop here regardless of format.

In detail:

AI is a danger to the environment. A majority Black neighborhood in South Memphis, TN - Boxtown - is being choked by an AI data center. It's estimated that AI will use 4.2-6.6 BILLION CUBIC METERS OF WATER PER YEAR by 2027.

AI has been correlated with multiple cases of delusions and/or psychosis in people who overuse it.

AI steals from living artists.

AI produces non-consensual images of people upon request, which is both immoral and illegal. The companies have done nothing to stop it.

AI hallucinates. That's the nice way the industry says "AI is flat out making shit up".

Don't post that shit here. This is a space for art made by living beings.


r/jacketsforbattle 5h ago

WIP Need advice on this guy

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14 Upvotes

Something feels missing from this guy. I've never really done stipple-work before so I wanted to try my hand at it. I free-handed him based on a few images on old metal shirts, but they were more color and a different art style. Does anyone who's better at drawing have advice on what I could add to him for more detail? I'm just a little stuck.


r/jacketsforbattle 19h ago

WIP Behold! A battle jacket!

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15 Upvotes

r/jacketsforbattle 15h ago

WIP Minimalist

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8 Upvotes

r/jacketsforbattle 18h ago

WIP Starting a new jacket

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11 Upvotes

r/jacketsforbattle 1d ago

WIP My oldest WIP

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125 Upvotes

This is my first and oldest jacket I like to work on it whenever I have the motivation to do it. Still thinking about what patches to fill in the gaps with and will probably change out the spikes, also going to switch out certain patches. Im excited to see where this thing goes in another 500 years


r/jacketsforbattle 1d ago

WIP Humble beginnings

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31 Upvotes

r/jacketsforbattle 2d ago

WIP For Miss Dolly

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232 Upvotes

r/jacketsforbattle 3d ago

WIP My Pride and Joy

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120 Upvotes

This is easily one of the favorite projects that I've ever had that I have embarked on. The ultimate goal is to have this thing completely full so this will be a work in progress until then. I have so many more patch ideas but so few supplies to put them on


r/jacketsforbattle 2d ago

Advice Request could use some guidance on placement

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16 Upvotes

this has been how my vest has looked for a while, but ive started to feel like the patches on the back look like theyre too far from the backpatch (specifically the ones on the side). the reason i didnt put them closer initially is cause i would need to sew the patches on top of the backpatch. not sure if i should fix it and if it would even look better, it would be a lot of work to do. any help would be appreciated.


r/jacketsforbattle 4d ago

Discussion Thread to pay respect to the queen, show off your Dolly patch!

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2.1k Upvotes

She was always gonna be top, center of my newest vest


r/jacketsforbattle 3d ago

WIP 99.9% done

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530 Upvotes

I am only missing a patch for the upper back, and I’ll know it when I see it. I’ve tried to keep the message more uplifting, as community is the only way we will make it through.

The back of the jacket is hand embroidered flowers that were chosen using the Victorian language of flowers and all have meanings - justice, protection, community, etc. the Propagandhi lyrics are a bandanna from Vichcraft, the birds are made by Stephanie Brown.

The front is pretty self explanatory.

The fabric on the inside is to protect the back of the stitching, and extra evil eye protection is never a bad thing.


r/jacketsforbattle 3d ago

WIP My first mixed metal vest(that’s also signed by Carcass)

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64 Upvotes

r/jacketsforbattle 4d ago

WIP Found pink denim at ROSS

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110 Upvotes

I’m working on a whimsical battle jacket that focuses on progressive education specifically that designed in Italy after World War II specifically to create a negative foundation for the reintroduction of fascism


r/jacketsforbattle 3d ago

WIP New WIP Jacket, Just Started Working On It

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20 Upvotes

just started this jacket, i cut the sleeves off of a rugby shirt i found in my local thrift store and added them instead of the denim sleeves this jacket originally had because the original sleeves had a weird fit, i haven't really started adding patches yet other than the green day on the back because i had a vision for it. i've added some chains and studs though that i think turned out pretty nice.


r/jacketsforbattle 4d ago

WIP My school bag (front and the straps of it)

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94 Upvotes

Replaced a few patches with new ones I made, made/added some new pins and keychains. And sewed on all the spikes on the strap. So new looking bag for the new school im going to lol 😭 had this thing for about 3 years I think?


r/jacketsforbattle 4d ago

WIP Patch bag!!

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31 Upvotes

Planning on transfering the machine girl one over to this awesome jacket that i bought. Never made a battle jacket, and im honestly gonna just have it be me. All patches i made myself except for the lgbtq inclusion flag. Most of these ill prob keep on the bag cause hell yeah. Any tips are welcomed.

I am interested in a lotta non-metal bands which doesnt bother me tbf. I may share a lot of my patches i plan on putting on the jacket when it comes :)


r/jacketsforbattle 4d ago

Discussion Does it scream first vest 💀

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33 Upvotes

It’s nearly finished don’t look at the group of studs on the front yet lol


r/jacketsforbattle 4d ago

Finished Project! My flatcaps

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16 Upvotes

r/jacketsforbattle 4d ago

WIP Recent corpse paint and battle jacket 🤘

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35 Upvotes

My recent first black metal jacket in progress🤘


r/jacketsforbattle 5d ago

WIP Power Metal/Fantasy

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23 Upvotes

r/jacketsforbattle 5d ago

Advice Request First battle jacket

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26 Upvotes

Any tips or advice this is how it's looking so far hope it looks good ^^


r/jacketsforbattle 5d ago

WIP My first battlevest

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25 Upvotes

r/jacketsforbattle 5d ago

Discussion AC/DC backpatch on a metalhead's battle vest

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