Modern smocking

milkmaid smock light blue linen smock blouse with 3/4 front button placket closure, hand embroidered english smocking on the chest, back and sleeves with custom embroidery on the collar and each side of the smocking panels. hand embroidered buttonholes with antique shell buttons made in the kent countryside

Everyone else has a blog, so why not me? Let’s just jump right in to my current project, which is a dress inspired by this one from Bottega Veneta: It really took my breath away. I wanted to …

In the ateliers, savoir-faire is in a perpetual state of evolution. And so the smocking that is in the Autumn-Winter 2022-2023 Haute Couture... | textile, dress

In portraits gollars can be found during the first third of the 16th century. Most people think about the round type of gollars that you wear on top of you clothing when they hear the term. But there are another type that is common too, the undergollar, made of linen, I have been writing about it before. Often you might dont even understand that its what you are seeing in a portrait, it might look like her shirt. But to few pleats might be a sign, or in this case, to many...or something like…

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one day i'm going to learn how to smock for my grandbabies. i'll start with gingham fabric like this!

Rocking Smocking: A guide to smocking for the modern sewist: Burch, Laura, McLaren, Kasja: 9781800922235: Books - Amazon.ca

Smocking is such a lovely technique and looks fantastic on clothing and really good on pillows as well. The amazing thing that I recently found out was that smocking was really not hard at all with simple instructions. When I saw this video tutorial by Professor Pincushion on how to do a basic honeycomb smocking,

Posts about Fabric Manipulation written by Ruth Singer