Smocking is an embroidery technique that was developed in England. It is used for gathering a fabric in such a way that it is able to stretch. In fact, before the invention of elastic, smocking was ...

Though my mother didn’t dress me like a girly-girl all of the time, smocking was her weakness. I think I’ve inherited my love of it from her so I was thrilled to see Salma Hayek‘s daughter Valentina ...