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Tambour Classes

Please find the following information regarding Tambour Beading Private Tuition.

  • One to One Tuition

  • Course Duration: 16 months

  • 1 x 3 hour class per month

  • Rate per hour: $50.00 + GST per person

  • All tuition is to be held at: 71 Mary St, St Peters NSW 2044

  • Tuition classes by appointment on any of the following days: Monday, 
    Tuesday, Friday or Saturday.

You must purchase the following materials and bring them with you to the first class and every class there after:

  • 1 metre of silk organza, colour of your choice. (Lighter colours are easier to work with in the beginning.
  • 1 metre of calico
  • 5 metres of 20mm wide cotton tape
  •   Pearl head pins    
  • Chalk paper or dress makers Carbon
  • 1 spool of metallic thread
1 spool of 120 polyester thread colour to match the fabric.

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1. Introduction to Tambour beading:

Materials and Tools. Starting stitch. Finishing stitch. Hook turning direction

2. Chain stitching:

Tambour beading with metallic thread, chain stitching. Continuous and interrupted

3. Tambour beading with bugle beads:

Learn all 4 directions.

4. Tambour beading with seed beads:

Learn all 4 directions.

5. Vermicelli and Cornelli

Learn to manipulate the hook and stitches in all directions in a continuous pattern.

6. Looped Work:

Looped stitches over rows of beads. Loops that hang free from the fabric.

7. Layered encrusting.

8. Corners & Continuous Backstitch.

9. Sequins:

Lapped. Learn all 4 directions

10. Sequins:

Flat fill in, beaded wrong side of the fabric facing up. In all directions in a continuous pattern.

11. Sequins:

Flat and beaded on the right side up. In all directions in a continuous pattern.

12. Sequins:

Side raised sequins. Learn all 4 directions

13. Tambour beading on non see through fabric:

Tambour beading with bugle beads. Learn all 4 directions.

14. 3 dimensional padding.

15. Tambour beading over 3 dimensional padding.

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* Note: Numbers are lesson numbers. All lessons must be completed in the above order.

Please contact me if you have any further queries. I look forward to being in contact with you in regards to booking a time for your tuition.

Yours truly,

Karen Torrisi

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