Smocking

The Canadian Smocking Matrix Design is a unique and popular way of creating smocking patterns. It is created by first creating a grid of horizontal and vertical lines on a piece of fabric. Then, the fabric is gathered along the lines to create the desired pattern. This method is often used to create intricate and … Continue reading "How To Do Canadian Smocking Matrix Design"

Make a smocked dress for a little girl from an old t-shirt

There’s something about smocking that seems to strike fear into the hearts of even fairly adventurous sewists. My very first blog post ever was about a smocked dress. I managed to inspire one…

Israeli designer Tamara Efrat has combined traditional smocking embroidery with computational algorithms to create the Crafted Technology collection of bags

Hand Smocked Dress - Embroidered Smocking for Sewing Projects

Posts about Fabric Manipulation written by Ruth Singer

Lately, I’ve become obsessed with smocking. Not the old school style, but newer approaches.

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Во время последней поездки во Флоренцию меня заинтересовало платье, которое выставлялось в Музее Феррагамо в рамках выставки "Между модой и искусством". Вам оно может показаться простеньким, но его фотография не передает интриги: глубины цветовых нюансов, игры светотени, образованной…

When I first learned to smock I remember being taught about blocking, having no understanding of what I was doing and then assuming that smocking was too hard for me. This prevented me from smockin…