But every stitch after that, you're gonna be bringing your needle out of an old pleat and then into a new pleat. So it always covers two pleats. So I've come up in the valley between the first two ...

British-Brazilian designer Tessa Silva has used sand and wool to transform pleated fabric into a series of voluptuous vases and stools. Silva's Smock collection was born out of a technique she ...

Smocking is an embroidery technique that was developed in England. It is used for gathering a fabric in such a way that it is able to stretch. In fact, before the invention of elastic, smocking was ...

Making smocking easy and fun! - And instead of putting it through a pleater, what I did was, I actually took a thread and needle and I pleated the stripes on this so that the humps of the pleats on ...