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Smocking
Explore a collection of beautiful smocking patterns and techniques to create stunning garments. Learn how to master the art of smocking and add a touch of elegance to your sewing projects.
Ivory pleated blouse with a V-shaped smocked bib at the bustline front, back, and shoulder caps. High necked self-ruffled released pleat collar with interior braid, peplum waistband, set in Elizabethan shaped sleeves with graduated puffs stitched down by narrow rows of smocking stitches; with silk gauze cuff ruffle and self covered flat buttons with figure eight loop closures down the center front. Labeled: "Liberty & Co./Artistic and Historic Costume Studio/222 Regent St. W." Labeled…
Jan Power
I am in the process of creating a Landsknecht outfit that needed the a honeycomb smocked pleated shirt to start the ensemble. Visit my article “Was it Honeycomb Smocking on 16th c. German Clo…
Birgit Uebe
Lately, I’ve become obsessed with smocking. Not the old school style, but newer approaches.
Maria Aquino
Shirring is an old technique, I know. (Shirring and smocking aren’t actually originally done with elastic…..but it sure makes things easier. And faster.) Sometimes I assume everyone knows how to do it. But then I get another email asking how to shir (or smock) fabric. So it reminds me I shouldn’t assume…………..because it is …
Hanan Abdelaziz
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Haute couture for a baby? It feels alike. Just kidding. In a way it`s like yoga for me. I love hand embroidering. It`s so meditative. The same stitches over and over again, while you let your thoug…
Deborah Dearing
Smocking was a part of traditional dress long before it became associated with clothes for children. However, as a way of expressing devotion through hand sewing, smocking patterns like these remai…
Sannikova
Roberta Jones
When you think of smocking, if you're like me, you think of this: This is from the mid-1890s, and it's Liberty of London! Or, perhaps you think of this: Or, you might even think of this: Bottega Veneta I must say I love this pink dress. Smocking is an interesting way to add elasticity to a garment, especially back in the days before rubber & elastic. For me, just another ingenious technique humans came up with to solve problems. I learned a bit about smocking when I lived in Abu Dhabi. The…
Rozanne
