The industrial process of creating the wrinkled or creased texture in crepe paper or fabric by scraping with a blade.
From crepe + -ing (gerund suffix), naming the manufacturing process that creates the characteristic crimped texture of crepe paper.
Industrial creping is surprisingly old—crepe paper gets its wrinkles from a blade scraping wet paper, and this 200-year-old technique still creates the crinkly paper used in everything from party decorations to crepe bandages!
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