DURHAM -- When Astrida Schaeffer, guest curator at the University of New Hampshire Museum, describes the smooth gray silk of a Victorian-era dress that has been knife-pleated on the cuffs and bodice, ...
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 ...
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