Smocked sleeve

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

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When you think of smocking, if you're like me, you think of this: This is from the mid-1890s, and it's Liberty of London! Or, perhaps you think of this: Or, you might even think of this: Bottega Veneta I must say I love this pink dress. Smocking is an interesting way to add elasticity to a garment, especially back in the days before rubber & elastic. For me, just another ingenious technique humans came up with to solve problems. I learned a bit about smocking when I lived in Abu Dhabi. The…

An English Ebay purchase. I can't find a year, but it's from Weldon's, who printed many needlework guides reproduced here. These are just a few of the pamphlet's beautiful pages.

The sleeves for Sweet Arabella are all cut, pleated, and ready to go. Smocking sleeves is easy. Easier in fact, than an insert or a bodice, ...

ThreadWritten on Instagram: "Gathers and pleats! Learn to smock fabric for shirt sleeves, cuffs, and necklines inspired by the traditional clothing of Romania, Ukraine, and Belarus in this two-part class online May 11 and 25. Each class is two hours and begins at 10am Pacific/ 1pm Eastern/ 7pm Central European Time. This is a skills-based workshop based on my travels and research with small exercises in hemming, gathering, pleating, and stitching patterns over pleats. You can create a…

Smocking is a well known traditional embroidery technique, which gathers fabric together into tight pleats so that is can stretch and return to its gathered shape. It is often used as a form of decoration on a garment, as the gathering of the material and stitches can be formulated to create patterns.

In a previous life I did a bit of smocking. When I was doing my City and Guild fashion course, one of my projects was a bucolic, shepherdess-inspired blouse. It has been lurking in the back of my wardrobe for a lot of years. There never seems quite the right occasion to wear this beautiful but rather unusual blouse? Hubby says it makes me look a bit like a Russian cossack. Surprisingly it still almost fits. It is rather lovely, and took a huge amount of work. One of the reasons I don't wear…

Smocks have a long and diverse history. This exhibition will explore some of the sixty-three smocks held in the MERL's collection

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Little Women Atelier on Instagram: "Delicate details of the Beth'23 dress sleeves in the Grass Green color, available to order on our website: littlewomenatelier.com 🌿 #linen #puffysleeves #littlewomenatelier #cottagecore"

Isabella | White Cotton Hand Smocked Girls Summer Dress - Annafie

PRODUCT DETAILS Women's smock mini dress Relaxed fit Shirt collar with accent button Full sleeves with shirred cuffs Front button placket Pintuck body detail He...

Ivory pleated blouse with a V-shaped smocked bib at the bustline front, back, and shoulder caps. High necked self-ruffled released pleat collar with interior braid, peplum waistband, set in Elizabethan shaped sleeves with graduated puffs stitched down by narrow rows of smocking stitches; with silk gauze cuff ruffle and self covered flat buttons with figure eight loop closures down the center front. Labeled: "Liberty & Co./Artistic and Historic Costume Studio/222 Regent St. W." Labeled…