Home Page. Sequintial Art – Tambour Beading Unravelled. Couture Sewing Techniques - Claire B. Shaeffer. Couture Beading. Couture bead embroidery is traditionally called tambour beading.
Tambour is a very ancient technique, and tambour embroideries were being imported from Gujarat as early as the 16th century by The East Indian Company, and the technique was also worked in Ireland, Switzerland and Saxony and was introduced to America in the early 1800’s. Tambour beading evolved from tambour thread embroidery and is named from the drum shaped frame originally used - ‘tambour’ is the french language word for drum. In 1770, Charles St Aubin, Embroiderer to the French Court, wrote about this new technique he called ‘La Broderie en Chainette et au Tambour’, and the hook became the tool to rival the needle.
Tambour became a fashionable recreation for European Society ladies in the late 1700’s and another technique of the ‘gentle arts’ to be used, like tatting had been, to display feminine hands and virtues to calling admirers, as depicted in the painting of The Ladies Waldegrave’ by Joshua Reynolds. Learningtofly – Katafalk. This is a guide of how I sew my corsets, I think that is is a really simple way since there is no need to worry about the “stitch in the ditch” issue, having seams that are not exactly aligned. This corset does not have a busk since I made this tutorial before I learned how to insert them. But HERE is a really nice tutorial on how you do it, it is also how I insert my busks. This tutorial does not address any pattern making either, It is simply a note on sewing technique. Adobe Scene7 Zoom.
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