...a marriage in 1876 in Lisnaskea/Moat between my gg grand parents James Crawford (1842-1915) and Jane McManus (1848-1885)...
I can help you out here - as tambour muslin brings Jane Austin to mind!!At the height of its popularity in Europe between 1780 to 1850, fine flowing muslin gowns, net wedding veils and scarves were embroidered, as the Napoleonic Wars made it difficult to obtain fashionable French lace.It was worked with a hook, an ‘ari’ in India, and in the West, a ‘tambour hook’, like a sewing machine needle turned into a crochet hook which was placed inside a wooden holder. A fine fabric – cambric, muslin or netting – was placed drum tight in a free standing embroidery hoop. The right hand held the tambour needle whilst the left hand, below the work, held the thread. The needle worked through the fabric and created a continuous line of chain stitches.Is believed to be of eastern origin, worked in China, Persia, Turkey and India as early as the 1300s. The technique reached Europe about the mid 1700s and was referred to as ‘tambouring’ from the French ‘tambour’ for drum, a forerunner of the modern tambourine. Named after the drum shaped frame on which it was worked.
