Smocking
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title:
Smocking
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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. Smocking developed in England and has been practised since the Middle Ages and is unusual among embroidery methods in that it was often worn by labourers. Other major embroidery styles are purely decorative and represented status symbols. Smocking was practical for garments to be both form fitting
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description:
Craft embroidery technique
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smocking
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2023-03-06T19:39:09Z
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