Tambour Work

One day, while this lady was engaged in working a sort of embroidery called "tambour-work," she complained to young Whitney that the frame she was using was too rough and tore the delicate threads. ❋ Various (N/A)

Miss Quiney looked up from her tambour-work, with hand and needle suspended in mid-air, and gazed across at Ruth, who, seated at the harpsichord, had been singing softly -- murmuring rather -- the notes of Ben Jonson's _Charis her ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

She went always voluminously clad in black or shot-silk gowns, their skirts so swelled out by a multiplicity of starched cambric petticoats, adorned with tambour-work, that she was credited with the existence of a crinoline. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

'You must try it, and if the life is too hard, perhaps dressmaking or tambour-work will come lighter. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

His wife was engaged with a young girl at tambour-work; I accepted her company on the condition that she would not allow me to disturb her work. ❋ Unknown (1827)

A slave was sitting near the window, doing some tambour-work, but she did not move. ❋ Unknown (1827)

A lute lay in one corner; -- tambour-work and embroidery occupied a recess near the window; -- the clothes 'presses showed their contents neatly folded, and carefully set out to the best advantage. ❋ John Roby (1821)

'oman as takes in tambour-work, and dresses quite genteel, 'who talks a good deal about' my friend, 'and can't' a-bear anything low. ' ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)