To provide a method for efficiently obtaining a tasteful pleated fabric or product embroidered with a continuous, discontinuous or part pattern.

This embroidered pleated fabric or product is obtained by the following procedure: a wide knitted fabric knitted with deknitted dyed yarns by a conventional method is subjected to dry heat tentering, and backed with a water-soluble nonwoven fabric, and then subjected to garment embroidery of continuous, discontinuous or part pattern using an embroidery lace machine; the resulting knitted fabric is partly dissolved in hot water, and the resultant fabric is subjected to automatic shearing machine to cut the residual entangled embroidery yarns off, and subsequently subjected to dry heat tentering again, cut to necessary dimension, and as necessary, subjected to partial sewing and/or partial ironing, and finally, subjected to pleating and sewing.