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smocking::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | embroidery, fancywork |
| Derivation | smock |
Examples of smocking
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Quilting, shirring and smocking added texture and loft to vests and jackets.
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Here, you can learn how to create smocking on an ordinary ribbed background.
From the guardian.co.uk
Ruffled sleeves and hand smocking were staples of the designs done in plaids or florals.
From the inrich.com
Work each row of smocking 8 sts above the other until you reach the end of your gloves.
From the guardian.co.uk
And we bleached and dyed it to get just the right blue, and put some smocking at the top.
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Purely decorative techniques such as shirring, smocking, and embroidery.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The fringe around the whole shawl is 15 inches long, with smocking around the edge of the fabric.
From the timesunion.com
Smocking can be worked across knitted fabric in a variety of ways.
From the guardian.co.uk
When smocking ribbed fabric, it's best to use a wider rib for the background i.e. a P3, K1 rib.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches
- (smock) duster: a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
- (smock) embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally; "The folk dancers wore smocked shirts"
- Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch. Before elastic, smocking was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable. ...
- In knitting, a gather is a generic term for several methods that draw stitches closer together laterally, i.e., within a row of knitting. ...
- (Smock (garment)) A smock-frock or smock is an outer garment traditionally worn by rural workers, especially shepherds and waggoners, in parts of England and Wales from the early eighteenth century. ...
- (smock) A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise; A blouse; A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc; To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Alfred Tennyson; To apply smocking; Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; Hence, of or pertaining to a woman
- (smock) 1. A man's loose overshirt. While in the 19th and 20th centuries it was common to control the fullness at the top of the body and sleeves by pleating the fabric finely and oversewing the pleats with the stitching called "smocking", this was not done in the 18th century (unless possibly, ...
- (smock) A garment supplied to employees to be worn during working hours.
