What is smocking?

Smocking is an embroidery technique with its first recorded use as a type of manual sewing used to produce elasticity and stretching in clothing before elastic creation. This technique is also implemented to check the fullness of a piece of fabric. Smocking is used in fashion of clothing as well as in the production of curtains, upholstery and doll clothing, among other things. As a decorative type of embroidery is used to add dimension and texture, as well as style and accent. To create a drama and details in which it is stapled, a high -contrasting color of the fiber is often used. These fibers are used only on the first and last lines. These fibers help safely keep the use of folds in a place where the most stress and pressure would normally occur. Backsmocking is simply one or more rows of traditional Smecking stitch made on the back or incorrect side of the material. This type of sewing is most often performed in the same color fiber as the material on which it is quilted.

Accent stitches or free independent stitches are often added to the creation of other patterns. These types of stitches are traditionally performed in a fiber whose color is in contrast to the material on which it is quilted. The accent stitches are performed in different samples.

Another way to add contrast is the use of application tuxedo technique. Applique Smocking is when the sewing method is used to connect decorative lace or ribbons to a pleated substance. Applique sewing is often performed either in Cretan or fishery type of stitch.

While most of this type of sewing follow a strict pattern or design, there are those that don't. For example, free forms of smocking allows stitches to be placed regardless of the thread instructions. Whether watching the dressing pattern for a little girl or simply watch the whim of the sewer on a piece of silk, smocking things and beauty can be.