What do you think of when you mention the pleating process on clothing? Crepe crushing feet on sewing machines, shovels and folders, Smark's package or up-and-down differential discounts? Poverty ...

I have always been fascinated by smocking done on my girls’ dresses and always thought it is too difficult to do. Realistically it is a little bit difficult to do than other embroidery work but the ...

Smocking is a beautiful and intricate embroidery technique that creates texture and gathers in fabric. Often used for heirloom clothing, decorative pillows, and home decor, this historic method adds ...

Smocked baby clothes are quite the tradition in the south, and Birmingham is no exception. Who else loves seeing babies in these adorable outfits? If you’ve ever thought about making a smocked outfit ...

This is an example code for our paper "Digital 3D Smocking Design", by Jing Ren, Aviv Segall, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung. In this project, we develop an optimization-based method to model smocking, a ...

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Our Engineer guest makes smocking easy and fun, showing how in modern times we can make an age-old skill, contemporary. Fit 2 Stitch is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available ...