Fashion Resources

Smocking Sample Pictures and Stitch Illustration

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com

These are actual examples of smocking with instructional diagram to achieve the effect.

Thanks to Claire Johnson for the samples.

Fabric samples have their main stitch shown alongside, but they also show other stitch styles.

Diagrams show outline (top left) and stem stitch below. These control the set of the first and last row of gathers.

Outline Stitch

Stem Stitch

Trellis Stitch

Diagram ofdouble wave stitch sample

Double Wave Stitch

Diamond Stitch

Vandyke stitch sample
vandyke stitch illustration

Vandyke Stitch

Basket stitch illustration
feather stitch illustration

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