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Dorie Wilkie is an embroiderer who studied for a City and Guild diploma in Art, Design and Embroidery, at Telford College, with further studies at Leith School of Art. She organised and worked on several commemorative embroideries from Scotland, notably the Prestonpans tapestry (2010), Great Tapestry of Scotland (2013) and the Scottish Diaspora tapestry (2014).

See Walter Weldon.

Walter Weldon was an English chemist, journalist and fashion publisher. He was the founder of Weldon's Fashion Journal; Weldon's Ladies' Journal (1875–1954); Weldon's Patterns and Weldon's Household Encyclopaedia, as well as of various other publications.

Margaret McArthur Weir was a lace maker who lived near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She had learnt making tambour lace in Scotland and brought this skill with her to Canada. She made and taught this form of lace in the Hamilton region, hence its name Hamilton lace.

Federico de Vinciolo was a pattern designer and lace maker from Venice, who lived and worked in the sixteenth century. Among other places, he worked at the court of Henry II of France (1519-1559). In 1587 he produced a needlework pattern book called (in short) Les singuliers et nouveaux pourtraicts ... pour touttes sortes d'ouvrages de lingerie .... 

A variegated thread or cloth is a material dyed in two or more colours. In contrast, shaded refers to a thread or cloth dyed from light to dark using one colour (also called ombré). The terms 'shaded' and 'variegated' are often (incorrectly) used synonymously.

Pierre Vallet (sometimes written Valet) was born in Orléans, France, and became known as a botanical artist, engraver and embroidery designer. He worked at the French court under the patronage of Marie de Médici of Florence (1575-1642), the second wife of Henry IV (1553-1610). Vallet published various botanical theses with paintings of indigenous flowers as well as of more exotic forms from Africa.

Tambour lace is a form of embroidered net, and is made by stretching a fine net over a frame and then working the design in a chain stitch using a fine hook (tambour hook).

A tambour hoop is a set of two circular frames on which cloth is stretched before stitching it with a tambour hook. One of the frames is slightly larger than the other. The ground material is stretched over the smaller of the two, and the larger is pressed over the cloth and (smaller) frame.

A tambour frame is a rectangular embroidery frame on which cloth is stretched before being stitched with a tambour hook. In Europe, embroiderers also made use of round tambour hoops for stretching and tensioning the cloth, while in India, Iran and parts of Asia, the rectangular tambour frame has always been preferred.