Smocking

Quick meaning: Smocking is a noun meaning present participle and gerund of smock.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of smock.

More Meanings

1. (sewing) An embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered and then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place; the product of the use of this embroidery technique.

Example Sentences

Her stitching was fine and regular, her smocking came out even, and the plaids of her jackets met invisibly at the seams.

Such decoration should be chosen for these as can be designed to follow the threads of the material; that is, tucks, plaits, shirrings, and smockings.

Mr. Hudson […] preaches in his surplice. We see no reason why all clergymen should not do likewise. This donning and undonning, this white dressing and black smocking which one sees in so many churches, is a piece of stale nonsense; […]

Smocking forms an effective trimming for ladies' dresses, either as a waistcoat or yoke, and looks well for the crown of a small toque with a velvet brim. The great difficulty in smocking is to gather the material regularly, or the embroidery will look crooked.

Word Forms

• smockings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gaberdine, duster, smocker, stroking, seamstressing, sewing.

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