Tambour embroidery patterns

I’ve gotten to spend the past two weekends doing one of my favorite things: dressing up and demonstrating needlework at Locust Grove! For these demos I was doing tambour embroidery, which was…

Introduction to Tambour Hand Embroidery: A Step-by-Step Guide Have you ever seen an intricate design elegantly embroidered onto fabric and wondered how it was done? The art of hand embroider…

1:1 In Person & Online Tambour Embroidery for Beginners Classes. Learn the traditional art of Tambour Embroidery also know as Luneville or Aari embroidery. Create a couture beaded design, learn to make a beauvais stitch, attach beads, sequins, rhinestones, goldwork all using a tambour.

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 ...

As regular readers know I often highlight free books, patterns and resources that I discover online. On the archive.org site I discovered and French design book the Directoire designs for textiles which has been digitised by the Internet archive. The Directoire designs for textiles is an out of copyright pattern book …

As promised, I’m putting together some tambour embroidery instructional resources for those of you who are interested in learning this technique. Today, we’ll look at three books that are good for instruction in tambour work. These are the three of four books that I’ve found most useful – I’m saving the fourth one for a ...

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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

NeedleNThread have an amazing list of free Hand Embroidery Patterns. They have everything from borders to flowers. Some of my favorite ones are featured above. Have you used a chart from this round…