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 ...

Says Sarah Collins, professor of fashion at Savannah College of Art and Design, smocking is a way of manipulating fabric into pleats, and can also refer to the art of embroidering on pleated fabric.

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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 ...

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 ...