Tapered Tucks (2" apart)

Technique: Tapered Tucks (2" apart)

Tucks are parallel folds pulled up from the surface of the fabric and held by stitching from one end of the fabric to the other. Tapered tucks are “tucks sewn with straight seams which move in an oblique rather than parallel relationship to the fold.” (Wolff, pp. 150, 154, 156)

Materials: Cotton print cloth (Testfabrics) 400M, bleached, not washed

Spacing/Size: Tapered tucks 2” apart across the fabric

Folding Methods: Ironing along the fold in the correct direction

Anchoring methods: Machine stitching, size 80 needle, white cotton thread, all the same direction, 1/2” tapering to 1” from fold on the grain

• Maintaining the direction of the tapers and keeping the dimensions equal makes a slowly turning circle of tucks which becomes a fan shape—potentially a circle.

• This builds up a thick base of overlapping fabric tucks at the large end of the tuck.

• This is among the biggest surprises when compared to the sketch or plan for the tucks.

 

• The folding is more noticeable than the stitching, and the form created becomes more important than the tucks themselves

• the  diagonal lines are energetic, dramatic and fun