Pleating (All Types)
Pleats are fabric folds that are designed to remove the fullness even without removing fabric. Pleats are functional and decorative and are popularly used in garments and other forms of upholstery projects such as drapery. Regal Originals features some of the most common types of fabric pleating today.
Accordion pleats - They are considered as the basic kind of pleating that is made up of a series of permanent folds with equal width in alternating opposite directions. If pressed flat in a sole direction, accordion pleats may transform into knife pleats.
Box pleats - They are knife pleats back to back and have this tendency to spring out from a person's waistline. Box pleats create builder seams.
Cartridge pleats - Cartridge pleats are often used in gathering big amounts of fabric into a small armscye or waistband minus the bulk in seams. This kind of pleating allows fabric to spring out from the seam itself. It was a popular during the early 15th and 16th centuries.
Fluted pleats - Also known as flutings, fluted pleats are small, rounded and pressed pleats that are used as trimmings.
Honeycomb pleats - These are narrow and rolled pleats that usually serve as foundations for smocking.
Knife pleats - This kind of pleating technique is used for gathering purposes and usually forms a smooth line instead of springing away from the seam. Knife pleats usually have the ration of 3:1 and can be easily identified by the manner on how they overlap the seam.
Plisse pleats - These are narrow pleats that are made by gathering the fabric with stitches, moistening the fabric and then setting the pleats by letting wet cloth dry under tension or weight.
Rolled pleats - This kind of pleating technique creates tubular folds that run along the length of the fabric (top to bottom). A stacked pleat is a rolled pleat variation that requires a minimum of five inches of fabric to finish.
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