Thursday, 17 November 2011

Hand pleating in Practice - Part 2 - 8.11.11

We were challenged to create our own pleating patterns from scratch. Starting with a basic 3cm wide knife pleat......


I then reduced each alternate pleat to include 3 x 1cm pleats to create something more interesting............



The Zig zag pleat was one of my favourites, I think it's not too compliacted yet still effective................



In order to recreate it I spread the pleated fabric flat to see how each line was spaced...........



My own patterns, in really small and then larger scale.



Each pattern required two exact copies so that you can sandwich the fabric in between and steam to maintain the shape.

Here are my finished pleated pieces using various different fabrics. I like the pleats on prints as they are visually subtle.

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