What embroidery technique is to gather fabric so that it can stretch, and was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable before elastic?
Smocking The technique was developed in England and practised since the Middle Ages. It is unusual among embroidery methods in that it was often worn by labourers,
What transparent, biconvex structure changes shape to change the focal distance of the eye so that it can focus on objects at different distances?
What name was commonly used for the struggle that emerged after World War II between capitalism and communism that centred around the USSR & the USA and their partners, that lasted from about 1947 to 1991?
What tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers and other garments, traditionally made from worsted wool fibre, was patented by Thomas Burberry in 1888?
