Hand Smocking by Jill Barnes

Clothes of distinction for children

Jill Barnes Handsmocking Brochure

(This page is available as a portable document file (pdf) which may be printed and assembled as a brochure. Details are provided at the foot of this page)

Selection of 6 to 18 month designs

View A yoked dress smocked for 2". Collar can be of same material or a contrasting colour. Can also be smocked at the back as in View C. Dresses can be smocked to the waist for 2 year and older.

View B long sleeved or short sleeved, smocked from the shoulder to yoke level. Collar or frill at the neck as shown. For oldeer ages dresses can be smocked to waist.

 

View D all-in-one suit with long or short sleeves, with or without collar, with leg opening to ankles if required. (See also Romper Suit View E.

 

Prices start from £35 depending on style and material

 

 

 

 

Romper Suit

View E Romper Suit, Frill can be added to leg if required

View F smocked shirt, buttoned to trousers. The shirt and trousers can be of contrasting material. Elasticated legs or straight legs also available

 

All yoked designs can be made with white or contrasting yokes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christening dresses

Christening dresses smocked or unsmocked.

 

From £75 using your own wedding dress or other material; from £100 with material purchased to meet specific requirements.

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Pinafore dress styles

 

Prices start from £25 depending on amount of smocking and material.

Reduced price if customer's own material is used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Traditional Smocked Dresses

Prices start from £45 depending on amount of smocking and material.

Reduced price if customer's own material is used.

Sleeves can be cuffed, frilled or elasticated, short or long (see Puffes Sleeves below)

Sashes or half belts, contrasting collars and cuffs, with or without embroidery.

Button fronted dress can have collar and contrasting buttons down front, or double buttons. (see Collars below) Short or long sleeves.

 

 

View EE

Dropped waist smocked dress, buttons down the back, piped collar and cuffs.

 

 

 

View FF

Front button dress with contrasting lining, collar, buttons and band in skirt.

Can be smocked.

 

 

 

Dress Collars

A
B
C

 

All collars may be the dress material or white.

A has embroidered border; B is piped ; C is frilled with lace or the dress material.

If B is to be a white collar, the piping can be the dress material or a plain colour.

 

 

Puffed Sleeves

A
B
C
D

A has a bias edging ; B cuffed with frill or lace ; C cuffed with piping and may have bottom edge of lace or frill ; D elastic frilled

 

Brochure

The sketches and details of the dresses, romper suit and shirt on this page are available as a brochure. Click on the link below to open the brochure portable document format (pdf) file for local printing. The file contains four pages and, if printed back-to-back with centre of page fold, form an A5 size brochure.

(If you are unfamiliar with back-to-back printing, when the Adobe Acrobat Reader file opens, click on the Print icon at top left. In the box that appears look for the 'Print Range' area and select, in the Subset window, 'Odd pages only' - then click on Print. When the first and third pages are printed - replace them in your printer's paper tray, blank side uppermost - and repeat the Print process but this time select the Subset 'Even pages only'. The document can then be folded to form the A5 brochure.)

Print a copy of the brochure

Brochure supplement

The collar and puffed sleeves details are available as a supplement to the brochure. Click on the link below to open the additional page for local printing

Print a copy of the collar & sleeve supplement

 

Last updated: 20 July, 2011