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).
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 ....
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.
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Tulle embroidery is a form of free style embroidery worked on tulle, a light weight and machine-made net. This type of embroidery appeared in the late eighteenth and became popular in the nineteenth centuries. Tulle embroidery is often regarded as a cheaper version of bobbin lace.
Tulle is a lightweight, very fine form of net with a hexagonal mesh, machine-made and often starched. It can be made of various fibres, including cotton, nylon, rayon and silk. The word is often used synonymously with net. The name comes from Tulle, a city in the south-central part of France. Tulle was well known as a centre for lace and silk production in the eighteenth century. It is likely that early tulle netting originated here.
Trench art is a term used for objects made by military, civilians or commercial groups who were actively and directly involved in an armed conflict. Two well-known forms of trench art are the embroidered silk postcards dating from the First World War (1914-1918) and embroideries worked by POW's, often classed as trench art samplers.
The Tobit Table Carpet is a sixteenth century table carpet (table cover) apparently made in 1579 by Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (1521-1608; also known as Bess of Hardwick). She was an accomplished needlewoman who produced many embroideries.