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 ...

The sewers take on smocking In children's week, the sewers are challenged to make a child's dress which includes a technique some of them may not be familiar with.