Discover Historical Honeycomb Smocking

Honeycomb Smocking (Pleatwork Embroidery) is one of the few smocking stitches we can document to the 16th century in Germany. This video shows the basic Honeycomb Stitch and some variations while discussing historical accuracy and creativity.
0:00 Intro
0:45 Historically Documenting Honeycomb Smocking
01:27 Working the Basic Honeycomb
03:52 Broken Honeycomb
05:28 Surface Honeycomb
08:19 Honeycomb Points
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[@emmaschauer5409]

I think playing around is perfectly acceptable! With there being so few surviving examples, and so few people could afford to have their portrait painted, we have NO IDEA how much creativity was actually going on. Thanks for the video!

[@BreaknRemake]

FACINATING! I love that you take history and experiment with it to find what could have been.

[@ThimbleAndPlume]

Thanks! That's the part I love! I love the idea of experimental archeology!

[@elmarklaus]

Your video is so good and informative. You're really underrated. It's just the right mix of well researched information and actual useful tutorial

[@ThimbleAndPlume]

Thank you so much!

[@evelincepeda733]

I loving

[@ThimbleAndPlume]

I'm so glad

[@laurao8025]

Thanks for this! I really like the looks of the surface honeycomb stitch.

[@ThimbleAndPlume]

Glad you like it!

[@GrumpyKitten375]

Thanks!

[@ThimbleAndPlume]

Thank you!

[@Liberal.Linda.]

Looking for the video on pleating how-to that you mentioned at about 1:40. Is this it? kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaDPg4GlrJuMebM

[@ThimbleAndPlume]

That's the one!

[@Liberal.Linda.]

@@ThimbleAndPlume Thanks!

[@edwin7800]

Sorry to ask but do you take-out the gathering threads at the end ?