• Crafts,  General

    Embroidery Stitching Tool

    Watch Video Here! Visit Our Website Here! Welcome to Tool School! with Instructor Katrina Walker In this episode of Tool School, We will explore the Embroidery Stitching Tool. The Embroidery Stitching Tool makes it easy to create beautiful punch-needle style embroidery using a variety of threads and yarns. Clover’s Embroidery Stitching Tool has a unique holder design that features a translucent needle insertion area with 5 needle length position markings. These settings allow the embroiderer to easily gauge the needle depth for creating perfectly uniform stitches. It also has an alignment fin that…

  • Crafts,  Session 9

    Bead Embroidery “Kantan Couture” Tool

    What is it?-To most of us “couture” means high fashion and rightly so.  It’s something special, something elegant.  Unfortunately it also often means something expensive and something unreachable for most of us.  It’s custom made clothing and accessories made by the most exclusive designers.  And often the feature that sets the couture garment apart from the ordinary is the manner of embellishment.  A mesmerizing array of decorative threads, sequins and beads applied with infinite creative design adds the zing to the bling.  World famous designers and an army of skilled…

  • Blog,  Embroidery

    Kantan Couture Beading Embroidery

    Kantan Couture A quick reminder: Today’s the last day to enter our Embroidery Essentials Giveaway! See the link below for details: http://cloverusa.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/embroidery-essentials-giveaway/ Along with our embroidery stitching tools, Clover carries “Kantan Couture” bead embroidery tools. Which is an old art of embroidery, using a fine hook on a fine cloth stretched in a frame known as “Tambour”. Watch a quick demonstration on how this tool creates beautiful motifs using sequins and beads. A more detailed instructional video is also available on Clover’s YouTube page. Have you started working on any…

  • Blog

    Watch Us Wednesday – Bead Embroidery

    Tambour is the art of embroidering with a fine hook into a fine cloth stretched on a hoop. Our line of Katan Couture Bead Embroidery Tools and accessories help you create beautiful motifs using sequins and beads to embellish your designs. You thread the beads or sequins using our needle threader before you begin, and work the tool from the backside of the fabric while working the beads from the front. The results are stunning. Fran Ortmeyer introduces the tools and process in this brief video: