Tambour hook

We’ve been talking a lot about tambour embroidery recently, and since I promised a tutorial for you, here’s a video on the basic stitch! The very best way to get familiar with tambour embroidery is just to do it – that is, sit down with a hook, a piece of fabric in a hoop, and ...

A luneville or tambour crochet is a tool used in French Haute Couture Embroidery to make beautiful bead work, sequins embroidery, as well as decorative chain stitch embroidery called tambour work. The luneville hook has a small sharp bent tip similar to a crochet hook and a wooden handle. The needle should be changed depending on

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Embroidery by Kseniia Guseva on Instagram: "More process on mixed media project. At first I need to place fabric on a stand. I use hoop stand only when I film videos to get not shaky picture. And it’s time for tambour hook. My idea was to make all outlining using tambour hook. And turns out it takes a lot of time especially if you don’t remember how to use it 😅 Did you try tambour hook? It is also called luneville hook. I asked it a few months ago and there was a lot of people who wanted to…

Susan Elliott of Plays with Needles lets us peek over her shoulder as she takes a tambour-beading masterclass from expert Bob Haven. I see real similarities to needlepunch in this technique. Except…

Material Acrylic Brand Lacis Product dimensions 9.5L x 71.8W centimetres Colour Multicolour Item weight 3.02 Pounds

Discover the artistry of the French Style Tambour Hook & Needle. Unleash your creativity and elevate your needlework to new heights with the French Style Tambour Hook & Needle. * The needle sizes are 0.7mm, 0.8 mm.0.9 mm, 1mm, 1.1 mm 1.2 mm There are 3 different colors of wooden handles. * rosewood * satin wood * azobe The 0.7mm needle can be used with seed beads 11/0 and larger plus sequin The 0.9mm needle can be used for larger hole beads The 1mm is mainly used for thread work. These…

Here are pictures from a french book in order to help to understand the basic chain stich in tambour work. First of all, you have to strech very tighly the fabric on a frame, or a tambour leaving both hands available. Then use a tambour hook like one of these (my personnal mini collection ;-) And go on... Keep something in mind : you have to rotate the hook to keep the thread attached. Phase 1 : Insert the hook through the fabric to the back of the frame with the right hand. in the main time…