At 18:31 02/10/2005, you wrote:
Tambour:
You have for a background cloth a loose weave or netted material that is
pulled taught. Your crochet hook should be small enough that it inserts and
returns with thread without much difficulty.
Either side of the chainstitch w/out beads can be used.
Ah, okay, that makes sense. My needlework encyclopedia uses the
looped side. It doesn't show how to do tambour beading, but it shows
how to fill spaces with tambour stitches, and they use the looped
side as the right side. I think that's how it was done in the Empire
period. Or maybe they did both? I have to go back and re-examine
closeups I have of Empire era works, see which is the right side...
I have part of a waistcoat, which I believe is French, which is
tambour embroidered, with the "chain stitch" side on the top side of
the fabric. You can see it in close-up as the background to my fotopic site.
http://suziclarke4384.fotopic.net/
Suzi
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