Wrinkled Pleats

Wrinkled pleats are irregular ridges and grooves set by bunching and scrunching damp fabric, securing it tightly and letting it dry. There are two types of wrinkled pleating:

1. Broomstick Pleating: The damp fabric is gathered up, rolled around a cylinder and bound to hold until its dry. When unwrapped the wrinkled folds are one-directional.
2. Contortion Pleating: The damp fabric twisted in a rope, coiled, knotted and dried in a microwave oven. When opened out the wrinkled folds are multi-directional.

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