smocking

Examples

• All

• He admired the intricate smocking that added both charm and flexibility to the fabric of her blouse.

• It had light boning and back smocking.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The smocking could wait, I decided, and reached behind the kitchen door where Woofer's leash hung.

  Fiction book (2000)

• This was November, so to explain exactly how we got into this predicament, I would need to back up a couple of months, probably to an early September afternoon when I was sitting in the den practicing smocking.

  Fiction book (2000)

• I had signed up for a class at the Smocking Bird, thinking I would smock dresses for Debbie's two-year-old twins for Christmas.

  Fiction book (2000)

• My cousin, in my best blue dress with the hand-smocking and a shiny blue ribbon, puffed out around her braid.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The dress she wore was beautifully adorned with smocking around the neckline.

Synonyms

S

stitching

vssmocking

23 2.3

The action of joining cloth pieces with a needle and thread

focuses on tight elastic gathering stitches for ornament rather than general joining

E

embroidery

vssmocking

20 4.7

Decoration on cloth made by sewing thread into raised patterns

focuses specifically on tight gathers that create elasticity and ornamental patterns

R

ruching

vssmocking

• Specialized

1 8.2

A decorative way of gathering fabric on clothes into soft folds or ruffles

uses tight gathered stitches to form decorative, elastic patterns

S

stitchery

vssmocking

1 6.8

Decorative sewing done with a needle and thread

is about gathered tight stitches producing elastic decoration rather than general needlework

S

stitchwork

vssmocking

1 3.6

Work made by sewing or knitting to make patterns on cloth like a quilt

limits to a gathered embroidered technique making elastic ornamental patterns

S

shirred

vssmocking

• Specialized

8.3

Fabric gathered with rows of small stitches to make a stretchy, decorative effect

gathers fabric into tight patterned stitches to create ornamental elasticity

H

hemstitching

vssmocking

• Specialized

9.9

A decorative stitch you make by pulling out threads near a cloth edge and sewing the remaining threads together

creates elasticity by tightly gathering fabric rather than drawing threads

H

hand-stitched embroidery

vssmocking

4.3

Decorative patterns sewn by hand rather than by machine

is a specific gathered stitched decorative technique, not just hand sewing

F

fancywork

vssmocking

• Archaic

8.7

Decorative sewing like embroidery or lace that makes cloth look nicer

is the specific gathered decorative method creating elastic ornament, not general embellishment

How Decorative

smocking

• Specialized

1 8.5

embroidery

20 4.7

trim

34 3.8

gathering

• Specialized

14 7.7

Surface Forms

Etymology