Tools and Equipment
Embroidery Hoop
Also Known As Tambour Frame
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Two concentric rings, usually wood or plastic with a tightening screw on the outer ring, that hold fabric drum taut while a needle works through it. Keeping the ground fabric flat and under even tension is what lets embroidery stitches sit true, and the hoop is the simplest and cheapest tool the craft owns, small enough to travel in a work bag and large enough to frame a finished piece for display.
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Introduced When (Circa)In use by the eighteenth century, the earliest depicted evidence 1 The sources consulted give no invention date; an eighteenth century portrait of Madame de Pompadour working at a tambour frame is the earliest depicted evidence, and hand embroidery frames of some kind are likely far older. OriginHistorically made of wood, bone or ivory. The earlier name for the tool was the tambour frame, tied to the tambour chain-stitch technique it was first widely used for. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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