SOME baseball fans at Tuesday’s game between the San Francisco Giants and the visiting Atlanta Braves will be keeping their eyes on the ball in a different way from most fans. The ball they’ll be ...

Smocking is an embroidery technique that was developed in England. It is used for gathering a fabric in such a way that it is able to stretch. In fact, before the invention of elastic, smocking was ...

The quality of a sewn garment is dependent on the quality of its seams that are the basic structural element. The factors affecting seam quality in garments include sewing thread type and stitch ...