Our Engineer guest makes smocking easy and fun, showing how in modern times we can make an age-old skill, contemporary. Fit 2 Stitch is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available ...

Smocking is an embroidery technique that was developed in England. It is used for gathering a fabric in such a way that it is able to stretch. In fact, before the invention of elastic, smocking was ...

A group of area women are busy working to keep the art of smocking alive and well in Southwest Florida. The art, a form of decorative embroidery stitching, is often passed down from generation to ...

Several seamstresses have a decorative pillow to keep or give as a gift this year, thanks to the Old Pueblo Pleaters Smocking Guild. Members of the organization spent their monthly meetings making a ...

British-Brazilian designer Tessa Silva has used sand and wool to transform pleated fabric into a series of voluptuous vases and stools. Silva's Smock collection was born out of a technique she ...