Its use is now almost confined to the manufacture of what is known as Irish or Limerick lace, which is made on net in the old tambour frames, and with a tambour or crochet hook.
Chain stitch resembles Tambour work, which we shall describe amongst framework stitches, though it is not at present practised at this School.
Tambour Work has fallen into disuse, but was greatly admired when our grandmothers in the last century sprigged Indian muslins or silks with coloured flowers for dresses, and copied or adapted Indian designs on fine linen coverlets.
She set up a great tambour frame in her room and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.
She set up a great tambour frame in her room, and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework.
Madam Abigail opposite, with Abby beside her, both at their tambour work.
Tambour On l’a mené tambour battant = They led him with a high hand; They played the martinet with him.
Il sortirent tambour battant, mèche allumée = They went out with all the honours of war.
In a new republican version of a lyrical work represented at the Opera Comique, le roi in one well known line was replaced by la loi, and the vocalist had to declaim La loi passait, et le tambour battait aux champs.
A certain voluble executant, however, is said to have preferred the following emendation: Le pouvoir exécutif passait, et le tambour battait aux champs.
At length the tambour in the great temple sounded the signal of assemblage.
The challengers might not behold their "land of bread" again; nevermore for them was hammock by the stream or echo of tambour amongst the hills.
It is convenient to have it made to screw on to a table like the Swiss tambour frames.
The loops which are made with a small hook, called a tambour needle, form a fine chain stitch and must be regular and even; to facilitate this a sort of thimble, fig.
Numbers of patterns, originally intended for other kinds of embroidery can be executed in tambour work; amongst those contained in this Encyclopedia, figs.
The piece of stuff on which the tambour work is to be done must be mounted on a frame.
The pneumograph is placed about the body midway between the nipple and the umbilicus and sufficient traction is put upon the chain or strap which holds it in place to secure a good and clear movement of the tambour for each respiration.
The slightest movement of the arm or the contraction or relaxation of any of the muscles of the body-trunk results in a movement of the tambour quite distinct from the respiratory movements of the thorax or abdomen.
Throughout the whole experiment an assistant counts the pulse of the subject frequently, by means of the stethoscope, and records the respiration rate by noting the lesser fluctuations of the tambour pointer on the smoked paper.
The excursions of the tambour pointer as recorded on the smoked paper of the kymograph give a true picture of the respiration rate.
Leading from the Rue du Tambour is the Rue de la Belle Image, thus named from a handsome statuette of the Virgin, which formerly decorated a corner niche; and beyond is the Rue St. Hilaire, where Messrs.
This work consisted neither of embroidered tambour waistcoats, nor of net-work edging, nor of gold and silver brocade.
Peggy, letting her tambourframe fall to the floor.
And they paint flowers, or landscapes, and the tambour frame is seldom out of the hand when one is not practicing on the spinet, but they do not concern themselves with the welfare of the common soldiers as your women do.
He placed the hand in a closed vessel containing water connected by tubing with a bottle for raising the pressure and by another tube with a tambour and lever for recording the size of the pulse waves.
The oscillations of this are communicated to a Marey tambour and recorded on smoked paper revolving on a drum.
This is indeed the old French form with a tambour cylinder, and it is now the desk that is most frequently met with all over the world for commercial purposes.
The varieties of tambour work and open stitchery of various ornamental kinds were possible for all capacities.
Sheraton made very dainty designs for tripod stands, fire-screens and ladies' desks, with tambour doors.
His writing-tables and desks have tambour tops, that is strips of wood pasted on cloth, so that they roll back into receptacles provided for them, and are filled with secret drawers and flat cupboards for deeds or papers.
This sideboard has two little closets with tambour doors at the bottom, and deep wine-drawers on the sides.
A tambour frame is a round frame for holding material which is to be embroidered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tambour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
