I'm not sure just how different modern smocking is from period. ;-) Though there aren't TOO many modern examples of honeycomb smocking, it does happen.
I want to approach it from the perspective of making the garment. So, brief coverage of the basics, then a finished garment.
Always looking for new images. ;-)
Smocked neck shirts are really, really common. What's going on under the gold collars in the saxon dresses is less apparent. I'm not sure that it's a smocked NECK - but I'd buy a cable stitch to hold the pleats where the shirt meets the collar. Especially given the Dutch shirts with the whitework collars that are clearly NOT smocked.
I have my own method of construction - all rectangles and squares, and it works our remarkably well. Sometimes I even cheat and use the selvedge edge and don't have to hem the top edge.
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I want to approach it from the perspective of making the garment. So, brief coverage of the basics, then a finished garment.
Always looking for new images. ;-)
Smocked neck shirts are really, really common. What's going on under the gold collars in the saxon dresses is less apparent. I'm not sure that it's a smocked NECK - but I'd buy a cable stitch to hold the pleats where the shirt meets the collar. Especially given the Dutch shirts with the whitework collars that are clearly NOT smocked.
I have my own method of construction - all rectangles and squares, and it works our remarkably well. Sometimes I even cheat and use the selvedge edge and don't have to hem the top edge.