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But when she tried her hand at drapo, which traditionally involved only sequins, she found that tambour and beadwork opened new possibilities in contour, depth and detail. An Artist Who Blends Secular and Sacred (With Sequins) 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z
The tongue-and-groove edges are still holding them together, though, almost as if they are tambours rounding a bend in the curve of a roll-top desk. Dealing with a wooden porch that buckles when it rains 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z
It is a hybrid instrument - his invention - combining the neck of an guitar with a traditional four-stringed tambour. Red Sea soul: Revolutionary cries for recognition in Sudan 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z
They use a tambour hook technique called Lunéville, named after the town in Lorraine where it emerged around 1810, having traveled the Silk Road from Asia. The Hand-Beaded Chanel Bag That Takes 120 Hours to Embroider 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z
By adding a sixth string to his tambour, and sometimes wiring it to an amp, Abu Obaida stormed the Khartoum music scene. How Sudan's star of the tambour defied death and dictatorship 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z
They watched as the jewelry was rolled along the sidewalk in distinctive carts with robin’s egg-blue tambour doors. How Tiffany Moved 114,000 Gems Without Getting Robbed 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z
Walls are lined with tambour clocks, commonly called humpback or Napoleon hat clocks; black mantel clocks; tall case clocks, now commonly called grandfather clocks; and kitchen clocks. Studying time: Tupelo clock repairman last of a dying breed 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z
When Arthur returned, the tea had been removed and his mother was seated at her tambour work. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z
The Limerick embroideries, for they cannot be strictly called lace, are an imitation of Indian tambour work, and consist of fine embroidery in chain-stitches upon a Nottingham net. Lace, Its Origin and History 2012-02-26T03:00:15.360Z
The sounds of brawling and dancing, of the tambour and glee, descended to them and kept them waiting far into the night. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z
They came on with beat of tambour and with war-cries, threatening to devour the strangers. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z
She is accompanied by her husband, who endeavours to divert her attention from Death, who is insidiously dancing before them and beating a tambour. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z
Above this comes a row of circular shields, adorned with intricate arabesques, while bands and wreaths of lilies are everywhere sculptured on the windows, balconies, tambours and cornices, adding lightness to the fabric. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z
She came, besides, every forenoon herself, and taught my eldest girl to make gowns, and my youngest to tambour, so that now they can earn their own bread, and the most part of mine. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z
There a girl, the centre of a leering ring, danced to the music of her tambour; and there again a lad tumbled, and climbed a pole at risk of his limbs. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z
Even some military words, such as "cartouche," "tambour," have been borrowed from the French, owing to so many French adventurers having taken service in the armies of native princes in past times. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z
The oscillations of this are communicated to a Marey tambour and recorded on smoked paper revolving on a drum. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z
The girls wore plain print gowns, and muslin aprons edged with tambour work. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z
The misbelievers called on Mahomet, and the Christians on Santiago, and the noise of the tambours and of the trumpets was so great that none could hear his neighbour. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z
For round pillars were run up in it, with alternate tambours of white and black, all placed in parallel lines. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z
The tambours of the side doors and the statues on the latter were destroyed by the flames. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z
This stitch is also wrought with a hook on any loose material stretched in a tambour frame. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z
After each strophe the music struck in, consisting of two queerly shaped tambours and a shrill flute. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z
It is not truth, but falsehood which requires explanation, and Maria was sensible of this fact as she sat at her tambour frame thinking of Agnes and of Harry and of her uncle Neil. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z
And under the roof of the capital which lies upon the tambour, where it joins on to the head, there were ornaments like the flower leaves of the Egyptian bean intertwined together. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z
The reverse side of the Central Door is bare, except the dividing pillar, the statue of which is hidden by the 18th century wooden tambour. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z
Gabrielle was singing softly as she bent over her tambour frame. A Blot on the Scutcheon
According to Darmstetter the word ‘timbre’ is own brother to ‘tambour,’ both being derived from a low Latin form of tympanum. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History
And one afternoon as Maria sat at her tambour frame, Madame entered the parlor hastily, looking almost frightened. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z
Mrs. Greene was engaged in a piece of embroidery in which she employed a peculiar kind of frame called a tambour. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14
The earliest of the known mechanical sewing devices produced a chain or tambour stitch, but by an entirely different principle than that used with either needle just described. The Invention of the Sewing Machine
But the little mother is different; she looks sad, and I see her crying over there by her tambour frame, and I know the tears are for me. A Blot on the Scutcheon
It was with these blessed youths I was now to serve, for the tambour of the "Marboeuf" was drowned in crossing the Sambre a few days before. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune
"No, no!" shouted Fran�ois; "I was too long a tambour not to know that beat; they 're our fellows." Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II
"We have been too hasty, it would seem; so thinks our reverend father of Saint Roch, I perceive, who is evidently not accustomed to officiate au coup de tambour." Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I
The needle, and the entire machine, was basically an attempt to mechanize tambour embroidery, with which the inventor was quite familiar. The Invention of the Sewing Machine
The tambour frame lay in her lap, with her fingers idle a-top of it, having given up the battle with frayed silks. A Blot on the Scutcheon
With a grim look he went into the sitting-room, where his wife was dawdling over her tambour frame; and Polly sped up the stairs. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge
I began life at the tambour; I have come down to it again. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II
But no, he never noticed him no more than the tambour that beat the rappel. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I
Their British patent 8,948 stated it was for “improvements in producing ornamental or tambour work in the manufacture of gloves.” The Invention of the Sewing Machine
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. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"
Early explorers found its use next to universal, and the “tambour” is even now a characteristic feature of the musical paraphernalia of the Spanish-Americans. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188
It belongs as much to our art as does tambour work, which is done with a hook instead of a needle. Needlework As Art
They march about the principal streets in bands, each with its leader got up like a tambour major, and accompanied by rude African drum notes and songs. Due South or Cuba Past and Present
Having finished the accidence she has begun Latin; she can tambour, make embroidery, draw, paint, play the harpsichord, and sing so charmingly that people passing along the street stop to listen to the enchanting music.” Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance
"To be sure," said the little fellow, who, I now perceived, wore the dress of a "tambour;" "and is it a disgrace to be the first to face the enemy?" Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850.
The negroes, in turn, take part in the drumming, which is performed by bestriding barrel-shaped tambours, and beating the parchment side rapidly with their hands. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba
It would seem best to place the chain stitch named “tambour” in this class, as it naturally assimilates with the plaited and cross stitches. Needlework As Art
In military sciences and history, it would be said that Lee has ramen� tambour battant Meade under the defences of Washington. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863
The drums beat to arms in Saragossa's town, the tambours roll, the tabors sound, and 400,000 men attend the call of King Marsil. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
We owe the tambour frame, they say, to China; but it has been largely used, and abused indeed, in England. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
The clarionet takes the lead in the band of black musicians, and the g�iro and tambours serve to mark the peculiar chopping compass which is the leading feature of the creole dance. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba
The excursions of the tambour pointer as recorded on the smoked paper of the kymograph give a true picture of the respiration rate. Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man
The game was set to music, the measured beating of a tambour with the light chiming of silver bells. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
The boys bore cymbals and tambours; the pipers struck up a brisk marching note in the rugged Dorian mode. A Victor of Salamis
For stitching through, there is a finer thread, called "tambour." Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
The monotony of this sound is varied on the tambours, and neither of those instruments is used when the dancers pause for the lady's-chain. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba
These are all assumed to be of "Opus Anglicanum," and they may be described as being technically perfect, the stitches being of fine small tambour stitch, beautifully even, and the draperies exquisitely shaded. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
Over the canopies are three angels playing on a tambour and trumpets. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
Single pipes and double pipes, tinkling lyres and many-stringed citharas, not to forget herdsmen’s reed flutes, cymbals, and tambours, all made melody and noise together. A Victor of Salamis
A tambour frame is also useful, though you have no intention of doing tambour work. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
Their instruments are a big drum, hand tambours, huge cone-shaped basket rattles, a bent bamboo harp with a solitary string, and the indispensable g�iro or nutmeg-grater. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba
Since the introduction of machinery, however, there has been considerable trade, and a tambour lace is made for flounces, scarfs, &c. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
But the age of knitting and tambour passed away. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
Ten pennons whipped from her masts, and the cry of horns, tambours, and kettledrums blended with the shoutings of her crew. A Victor of Salamis
Your lords, with such fine baby faces, That strut in a garter and star,— Have they, under their tambour and laces, The kind honest heart of a tar? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
They are preceded by a band of music: a big drum, hand tambours, basket rattles, conch shells, and a nutmeg-grater. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba
One evening in last February a company of Provençal singers, pipers, and tambour players came to an hotel in Cannes, and entertained us. From a Cornish Window A New Edition
Then to the giants' ears were borne, The mingled notes of drum and horn, And clash of tambours smote the sky, And shouting and the battle cry. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse
She could never abide me in the country, because I used to dress so badly—but odds frogs and tambours! The Rivals A Comedy
Add to that, an inclination for odd musical instruments—the kaithra, the tambour, the oboe—all nomad instruments. Operation Haystack
It was not alone tambour and fine needlework, as we shall see later, that was taught by the Moravian Sisters, but the ribbon work, crêpe work, and flower embroidery, and picture production upon satin. The Development of Embroidery in America
The design shows a feathery effect, as in embroidery tambour. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
High on the royal car, that glowed With glory from his face, he rode; And tambour shell and drum pealed out, And joyful was each giant's shout. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse
They may be taught all sorts fine needlework, viz., working on catgut or flowering muslin, sattin stitch, quince stitch, tent stitch, cross-stitch, open work, tambour, embroidering curtains or chairs, writing and cyphering. Home Life in Colonial Days
Musicians played on lyre and cithara, reed and tambour; there began an endless round of feasting, hunting, games, and sports. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain
The varieties of tambour work and open stitchery of various ornamental kinds were possible for all capacities. The Development of Embroidery in America
His house was the seat of revelry; the noise of singing and tambours was heard there from night till morning. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
Then compassed by a white-robed throng Of Bráhmans, heralded with song, With shouts of joy from countless throats, And shells' and tambours' mingled notes, And drums resounding long and loud, Exulting Bharat joined the crowd. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse
To tambour on crape she has a great passion, Because here of late it has been much the fashion. Home Life in Colonial Days
Who sent thee here to me, with thy scarf of gold and pearl, thy raven locks and thy dewy lips, with bells upon thine ankles, and a tambour in thy hand? Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain
He had utilized his mother's tambour frame and knitting needles; and wires and thread held together his planets, which were made of worsted balls. By the Christmas Fire
These tambour frames, as they are called, are sometimes fixed into a small stand or fitted with a wooden clamp for fastening to a table; this frees both hands for work. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
To them the tambour major was by far the greatest soldier of the day. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
At length, Christmas-morning shone, and Jean the crier hastened through the town with his tambour, calling out, "Be ready, young maidens, at the Buscou: a grand Winding meeting takes place on Friday, New Year's Eve." Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
The flourish of trumpets, the clash of cymbals, and the wild beat of the tambour, announced the arrival of Alp Arslan from the Serail. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
The musical instruments represented include the cittern, bagpipe, hautboy, crowth, harp, trumpet, organ, guitar, tambour, and cymbals, with two others which are uncertain. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
These tambours cannot well be recommended; the material is apt to stretch unevenly, and a worked part, if flattened between the hoops, is liable to be damaged. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
The domes and cupolas constitute the summits of what are called by architects 'tambours;' the tambours of the cupolas are round, that of the central dome octagonal, and that of the hinder secondary one pentagonal. Roumania Past and Present
We found the Queen surrounded by her Maids of Honour, of whom some were sitting at the tambour frames, others doing fine embroidery, while two of their number were at the piano playing and singing. The Mysterious Shin Shira
Methinks all the tambours and cymbals of the city are in full chorus. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
A and C are tumblers; B, tumbling and balancing to the tambour; D, a woman dancing around a whipped bear; E, jesters dancing. The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D.
It can be obtained in different sizes, the finest qualities going by the name of tambour. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
Everywhere, on the cornices, tambours, and balconies, chaste wreaths and crowns of lilies add beauty and lightness to the fabric, and give to the whole the appearance of a fairy structure. Roumania Past and Present
The volume afterwards belonged to Pius VI., whose arms are worked in tambour on the outside. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two
Strange shouts of denunciation blended with the harsh braying of horns, and the clang and clash of cymbals and tambours sounded in every quarter of the city. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
A and C are tumblers; B, tumbling and balancing to the tambour; D, a woman dancing around a whipped bear; E, jesters dancing. The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D.
Most passing has to be couched on to the material, but it is possible to stitch in the tambour like ordinary thread. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
Upon this tambour, placed within comfortable reach of the reactor's hand, the various rhythm types were beaten out. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
A little group of men with pitos and tambours strolled from place to place, playing. In Indian Mexico (1908)
The baguette of Delille is no shepherd's crook; it has more the fashion of a drumstick,—baguette de tambour. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
"Marey's tambour" is still the most useful instrument in every physiological and psychological laboratory, whenever slight delicate movements are to be recorded. The Photoplay A Psychological Study
The tambour work doors in the upper part of this Sheraton secretary roll back; also notice the handles and inlay and tapering legs. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
The tambour, a curious name given to an antechamber in Sweden, seemed overflowing with dazzling uniforms and showy liveries. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
The tambour was continuously played, while the other instruments were alternated in the most curious fashion. In Indian Mexico (1908)
He, and many other white people thirty years before, saw a Jossakeed, or medium, crawl into such a lodge as Kohl describes, beating his tambour Cock Lane and Common-Sense
The bobolinks at noonday sing More softly than the softest flute, And lightlier than the lightest lute Their fairy tambours ring. Lyrics of Earth
Music of tambour, wire and wind, Ease shall bring to heart and mind; Wonderful sweet mouths shall sigh Languishing and lullaby; Turn then! Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II.
It began to emerge in a measure, a boom-boom-boom of tambours and big goatskin drums. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
After I was seated the three musicians took their places,—one played the great huehuetl, a second beat the tambour or ordinary drum, the third performed upon the chirimiya, a shrill wooden pipe. In Indian Mexico (1908)
In the lodge, the patient confesses his sins to his doctor, and when that ghostly friend has heard all, he sings and plays the tambour, invoking the spirit to descend on the sick man.  Cock Lane and Common-Sense
Some of the latter grisly shapes were playing on tambours, others on psalteries, others on rebecs—every instrument producing the strangest sound imaginable. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
She has not touched the tambour frame for nine or ten years. A Woman of No Importance
Six of them had immense flat drums or tambours, which they presently began to beat noisily. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
He employed a trumpeter and a tambour player to furnish music for his repast—as well as to attract public attention. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé
Good Heavens! my child," said she, "you will wear yourself to a skeleton with copying music, and with painting, and embroidery, besides stooping so many hours over that tambour frame. Tales and Novels — Volume 06
"Yes," said he, with an air of peculiar gaiety; "we have just been shooting a little tambour." Life in Mexico
Henry will soon be busy--I shall finish my drawing--and aunt will finish--no! she never can finish her tambour work. A Love Story
I have had a most agreeable letter from my darling old Mrs. Clifford; she sent me a curiosity—a worked muslin cap, which cost sixpence, done in tambour stitch, by a steam-engine. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1
On a chair near the window lay the tambour by the side of the large arm-chair, which seemed to be waiting for the old lace-worker. L'Assommoir
Well, really," said Lady Cecilia to Helen, one day, as she was standing near her tambour frame, "you are an industrious creature, and the only very industrious person I ever could bear. Tales and Novels — Volume 10
The tambours sounded now with a great alarum, and the sun was shining. Chronicle of the Cid
"Why did you refuse to go with our aunt, cousin?" asked the lady of the tambour frame. The Virginians
And, following it, they heard again that muffled drumming, as though gigantic fists were flailing a tremendous tambour in the darkness. Darkness and Dawn
My mother went on as diligently as ever with some of those perpetual shirts which seemed to be always in hand except before company, when she used to do tambour work for Emily’s frocks.  Chantry House
Accordingly I got a guard of 150 marines and the band of the 'Calcutta,' and set off with all my suite in chairs, tambour battant for the place of rendezvous. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
And the Christians defended themselves right well, and every time that they went upon the walls, they sounded trumpets and tambours, and made great rejoicings, as the Cid had commanded. Chronicle of the Cid
And Georgie would put down the tambour on which he was working his copy of an Italian cope and sigh too. Queen Lucia
He looked down at Felice—she was embroidering that day, seated primly before the ebony tambour frame. Little Miss By-The-Day
She sat at her tambour frame listening till all her senses and emotions seemed to have fled to her ear. The Maid of Maiden Lane
Formerly, the girls spent their mornings like ladies at their tambour frames; now, they are lounged away in almost utter indolence. Omoo
The golden voice was octaves deeper, vibrant, throbbing with that muffled, menacing note that must have pulsed from the golden tambours that summoned to battle Timur's fierce hordes. The Metal Monster
Remember that everything is to be tambour work, not smooth. Poor Folk
She set up a great tambour frame in her room and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
Jack was brave in a scarlet coat, a tambour waistcoat, and white silk stockings. A Book of Scoundrels
Where are the lute and gay tambour They loved of yore? The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I and my sister worked at tambour work.  Bleak House
Do not forget that it is to be tambour. Poor Folk
She set up a great tambour frame in her room, and began to work on an enormous piece of fine needlework. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
Also say that I have altered my mind about the satin, which I wish to be tamboured with crochet-work; also, that tambour is to be used with monograms on the various garments. Poor Folk
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