Research: Pleats

Pleating definition:

• A fold in cloth made by doubling the material upon itself and then pressing or stitching it into place.

Knife Pleat:

• A single pleat turned in one direction

Example of Knife Pleats

Knife Pleat skirt

Box Pleat:

• A fold in cloth made by doubling the material upon itself and then pressing or stitching it into place.

Box Pleat example

Nicola Finetti

Inverted Pleat:

• A box pleat reversed so that the fullness of the material is turned inwards.

Inverted Pleat example

Vikram Phadnis

Partial Pleat:

• Steam pressed pleat.

Papaya Clothing

Vera Wang

Projecting Pleat:

• Folds lifted from the surface of the fabric and arranged so that they stand out from the fabric itself. They include pinch pleats, organ pleats and cartridge pleats.

50s Vintage Hat

Nicolete Bakti

Accordion Pleat:

• A narrow pleat that, when used in series, resembles the bellows of an accordion, hence the name. Also called "sunburst pleat".
  
  
  
  

  

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  • Donna Karan

Wrinkled Pleat:

• This consists of irregular ridges made by securing damp, bunched fabric and leaving it to dry. It includes broomstick pleating where the fabric is rolled around a cylinder, when unwrapped, the folds all lie in one direction. Contortion pleating is where the fabric is twisted into a rope, coiled and knotted. When dry the folds lie in all directions. 

Modcloth

Safari inspired