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Tambour beading update
Robert Haven is a costume technologist, Associate Professor of Costume Technology at the University of Kentucky. His website is rich in photographs and descriptions of his work. Robert recently read my earlier post on tambour beading, and introduced himself in the comments. He has studied with the granddaughter of a Puerto Rican tambour embroiderer, and…
The Bead Museum library
The Bead Museum has used LibraryThing to make viewing the titles of their holdings available to all. Browse the approximately 2,700 bead books owned!
Tambour beading
I have only (knowingly) seen tambour beading a few times. To my untrained eye, it looks like a cross between crochet and latch hooking in execution; crochet with a hook that pierces the fabric. You crochet with the thread running on top, and beads or sequins added on the bottom. The tambour hook pierces the…
Nancy Eha brown bag lunch
Nancy opened her talk at the Minnesota Textile Center by saying that she has always done needlework, and listed many different kinds. She said typically, she’d spend two years on a particular form, and then move on. Her first introduction to beads was actually at the Mall of America and the now-closed Bead It —…
Split Rock 2009
I received an email this morning that registration was open for Split Rock, sessions held on campus at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, or the Cloquet Forestry Center south of Duluth, MN. I have taken classes from Joyce Scott and David Chatt through Split Rock (in their former location at the University of Minnesota…