Pleats techniques

Learn about the different types of pleats in fashion and why they are used on garments for movement and styling with names and pictures.

The Shapes of Fabric | My little half-scale makes are all made with little fabric scraps. This sleeve is made in an interesting variation of layering. It came out… | Instagram

These New Yorkers have been doing the same thing for 50, 60, 70 years — and love it too much to stop.

Today we are going to show you how to draft, form and sew box pleats. After knife pleats, discussed in our previous tutorial, box pleats are the second most common type of pleats you are likely to use when sewing garments. Just as with knife pleats, they are used to add volume, take in fullness...

This week we were using acrylic paint on fabric to create different effects. We started by stippling some calico with a dry brush using 2 colours - blue and yellow in my case, resulting in lots of green and looking like a flowery meadow! Then we moved on to using a diffuser and thin paint to give an effect like airbrushing, holding a piece of ripped paper in front of the fabric to act as a mask so that some parts stayed white. Then we moved on to a way of making monoprints on glass. We put…