Embroidery Technique, Allows Fabric to Be Stretched
This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Fauna and Flora, Group 173, Puzzle 3 (Movement and Respiration).
Question is: Embroidery Technique, Allows Fabric to Be Stretched
and the answer is: SMOCKING
Word Meaning:
SMOCKING — (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.
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