Tambour: You have for a background cloth a loose weave or netted material that is pulled taught. Your crochet hook should be small enough that it inserts and returns with thread without much difficulty. Either side of the chainstitch w/out beads can be used.
Ah, okay, that makes sense. My needlework encyclopedia uses the looped side. It doesn't show how to do tambour beading, but it shows how to fill spaces with tambour stitches, and they use the looped side as the right side. I think that's how it was done in the Empire period. Or maybe they did both? I have to go back and re-examine closeups I have of Empire era works, see which is the right side...
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