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 ...

Says Sarah Collins, professor of fashion at Savannah College of Art and Design, smocking is a way of manipulating fabric into pleats, and can also refer to the art of embroidering on pleated fabric.

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 ...