Tambour hook

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

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 ...

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…

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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 ...

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…

Tambour embroidery is an embroidery technique that uses hook to make chain stitches on fabric or netting. When done on fine tulle or netting with fine threads, the result is delicate embroidery. When using heavier threads on fabric, the result is a decorative chain stitch that can be used for outlines or fillings. It is also used to for bead embroidery where the thread is pre-strung with beads or sequins, held under the embroidery surface and each stitch secures them to the ground fabric or…