Voorbeelden van smocking

• Early smocking, or gauging, was done by hand.

• Before elastic, smocking was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable.

• She was accustomed to tailoring pieces that stood out by decorating the fabrics she used with such embellishments as embroidery, appliques and smocking.

• Smocking may be done in many sophisticated patterns.

• Traditional hand smocking begins with marking "smocking dots" in a grid pattern on the wrong side of the fabric and gathering it with temporary running stitches.

• Smocking was practical for garments to be both form fitting and flexible, hence its name derives from "smock" -- a farmer's work shirt.

• Smocking is worked on a crewel embroidery needle in cotton or silk thread and normally requires three times the width of initial material as the finished item will have.