Our Engineer guest makes smocking easy and fun, showing how in modern times we can make an age-old skill, contemporary. Fit 2 Stitch is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available ...

Says Sarah Collins, professor of fashion at Savannah College of Art and Design, smocking is a way of manipulating fabric into pleats, and can also refer to the art of embroidering on pleated fabric.

A group of area women are busy working to keep the art of smocking alive and well in Southwest Florida. The art, a form of decorative embroidery stitching, is often passed down from generation to ...

Several seamstresses have a decorative pillow to keep or give as a gift this year, thanks to the Old Pueblo Pleaters Smocking Guild. Members of the organization spent their monthly meetings making a ...