{"id":504,"date":"2013-01-25T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/25\/tambour-work-2\/"},"modified":"2013-01-25T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:13:00","slug":"tambour-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/tambour-work-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Tambour Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nTambour work is a type of embroidery that closely resembles
\nthe chain stitch.  While its popularity
\nhad waned significantly, it is returning slowly.  Originally, this type of work was done in China, India, Persia
\nand Turkey but became quite the fad in Europe, especially in France, in the
\n1700\u2019s.  The French were the first to
\nintroduce a hand held frame, they called a TAMBOUR, a word meaning drum.  The frame actually looked very like a modern
\nembroidery hoop with two round (sometimes oval) hoops that tightly held a piece
\nof ground cloth between them and could be tightened with a screw.  Some hoops had stands so that both hands
\nwere free to do the embroidery.  (I read
\nin one reference that the tambour hoop was named after a tambourine, which it resembled.  Actually, of course, the word tambourine is
\nfrom the French tambour also.  So you
\ncannot always take every reference you read as factual.)  Originally, in Europe tambour embroidery was
\nworked with white thread on a white muslin, crepe or cambic but subsequently
\ngold and colored silk threads were used as well as heavier fibers. The Eastern
\nworkers had, and still use, wool from which to make rugs, pillow covers and
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\nThe tambour hook, or needle was a sharp hook inserted into a
\nhandle, which was often very ornate and made of ivory, bone or metal.  The handle was usually hollow to allow
\nstorage of extra hooks. The stitch is made by holding the thread under the
\nground, piercing the fabric from above and picking up a loop, which is brought
\nto the surface by the hook. The next stitch is made through the preceding loop
\ncreating a firm chain of stitches.  This
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\nTambour embroidered table cover from India<\/div>\n
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\nHowever, as always, I issue a word of caution.  In 1857 James Gibbs patented the first
\nsewing machine that produced a chain stitch. 
\nGibbs eventually partnered with James Wilcox and formed Wilcox and Gibbs
\nSewing Machine Company.  Their machines
\nare still used in commercial production. 
\nSo how to tell hand from machine work? The machine stitches are
\ncertainly evenly spaced, however there is not always freedom<\/div>\n
\nto create intricate scrolling patterns.  Also these are not interlocking stitches, so
\nif there is a broken thread there is a danger that several stitches may become
\nundone.  Usually very large pieces of
\nembroidered fabric such as this large tablecloth (and set of napkins) would
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Tambour work is a type of embroidery that closely resembles the chain stitch.  While its popularity had waned significantly, it is returning slowly.  Originally, this type of work was done in China, India, Persia and Turkey but became quite the fad in Europe, especially in France, in the 1700\u2019s.  The French were the first to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-stitch","category-tambour-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}