tambouring

As however, the fine patterns with a good deal of shading in them, can be far more accurately worked by hand than by machine, tambouring, which is in point of fact merely a form of crochet, has lately been revived.

Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868

No one can conceive its completeness, who has not witnessed the workings of the power-loom, or seen the mechanism by which the brute power of steam is made to effect the most minute and delicate processes of tambouring.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various

Emily, and who now sat in her accustomed chair, with an almost sunny brow, quietly pursuing her monotonous tambouring.

A Love Story A Bushman

Thread with a very strong twist, which the hook will not split, is the only suitable kind for tambouring.

Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868

Their employments are the needle, tambouring, and reading.

Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854

It was on a hot, sultry day that the three were in the parlor of Mr. Wharton's house, the colonel and Sarah seated on a sofa, engaged in a combat of the eyes, aided by the usual flow of small talk, and Frances was occupied at her tambouring frame in an opposite corner of the room, when the gentleman suddenly exclaimed, --

The Spy James Fenimore Cooper 1820

"Come, this is a little ungallant!" cried Katherine; "to keep three ladies dying with impatience to possess themselves of their finery, while you detain the boy, to ask the name of a tambouring-needle!"

The Pilot James Fenimore Cooper 1820

But about the time that Nanny was advancing to the requisite degree of perfection in chain-steek and pie-holes -- indeed had made some progress in the Lord's prayer between two yew trees -- tambouring was introduced at Irvine, and Nanny was sent to acquire a competent knowledge of that classic art, honoured by the fair hands of the beautiful Helen and the chaste and domestic Andromache.

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

The fluctuations of trade in time taught them that it would not be wise to trust to the loom, and accordingly Nanny was at some pains to learn mantua-making; and it was fortunate that she did so -- for the tambouring gradually went out of fashion, and the flowering which followed suited less the infirm constitution of poor Nanny.

The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809

Never mind the pieces of needle-work, the tambouring, the maps of the world made by her needle.

Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. William Cobbett 1799