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From the pages of Threads Magazine
A New Way to Pleat Drama into Your Garments
Create innovative texture using fabric, fusible interfacing, string, and a large cardboard tube
by Patricia Congleton
A simple pleating process can produce innovative texture using string, fusible interfacing, a cardboard builder's tube (available from building supply stores), and, of course, fabric to be pleated, as described in Patricia Congleton's article "A New Way to Pleat Fabric" in the October/November issue of Threads. In a nutshell, her process involves making a fabric tube and pulling it face down over the cardboard tube, wrapping the fabric with string, sliding the fabric over the string wraps to pleat it, and fusing the back of the fabric with interfacing to lock in the pleated texture.
Almost any lightweight fabric can be pleated
Because pleating adds body and bulk to the fabric, the best results are produced by starting with a lightweight fabric. Whether a print, solid, knit, sheer, lace, or vintage fabric, if it's lightweight, it will probably pleat well. |
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Patricia Congleton teaches and designs her remarkable garments in Diamond Bar, Calif.
Mannequin photos: Sloan Howard; all other photos: David Page Coffin
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