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 ...

Smocking is a form of embroidery that holds together folds of fabric in a regular or irregular pattern. It is often used to create elasticity, shape, and decoration on garments, especially on the ...

Like a chorus of tiny pleats, smocking gives fabric a personality-textured, intimate, and quietly intricate. Whether adorning a baby dress, a bridal bodice, or an artisan homeware line, those gathered ...

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 ...