Making smocking easy and fun!- If you don't have stripes, you just have a plain piece of fabric, you don't have a pleater, you want to put some pleating in there, then all you have to do is draw ...

You can make use of the smocking pleater for the purpose. Make sure that while pleating, the general gauge is 3:1 — three inches of un-pleated fabric to one inch of pleated fabric.

Training on the pleating machine and First Article Testing on the filter samples was completed in early May, according to John Burkhead, director.

About the style: Smocking is embroidery over pre-pleated fabric. Though originally used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines before elastic was invented, as a design element, decorative smocking has ...