Okay, first one:

not technically an outfit, but still white lace :-D

At first glance, I'd say this is filet crochet, but I did see a similar lace in one of the outfits, and there it looked woven?

Anyone wanna weigh in?

If it is filet crochet, I'd estimate somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes per flower motif, so 30 to 60 hours total if we're seeing almost the whole table here.

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Cardinal Giorgio Marengo.

This looks like tatted lace to me? Plus hemstitching details?

Is it possible to make machine-produced tatted lace?

If it's hand-tatted, I'd estimate several hours per 10cm of lace?

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Cardinal Virgílio do Carmo da Silva.

This doesn't happen often, but I have *no* idea what type of lace this is O.O

Does anyone have a clue?

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(I'm gonna post them all, and then I'll return to do the picture description, promise!)

Cardinal Paulo Cezar Costa.

Could this be bobbin lace?
It is possible to machine-produce some types of bobbin lace, but this looks so elaborate, I'm kinda leaning towards hand-made.

If it's hand-made bobbin lace, I'd say half a day or a full day per oval motif?

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Cardinal Peter Ebere Okpaleke.

This is the one that looks like filet crochet, but kinda woven at the same time?

If it is crochet, I'd estimate maybe 2-3 hours per 10cm?

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Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline.

I have no idea, but to me it looks similar to Plauen Lace, which is machine-made AFAIK?

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Cardinal Robert Walter McElroy.

This seems to be mainly hemstitching (Hohlsäume)?

Looks kinda hand-made?

I'd estimate under 30 minutes per 10cm.

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Cardinal Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão.

OMG. There's element of tape-lace in it, which could be either bobbin lace or crochet (aka Bruges lace). Also, the pixel-art looking lace could be filet crochet again.

So, different crochet techniques? Which would point to hand-made...

If it is hand-made, we're looking at *hundreds* of hours here O.O

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