Talk:Embroidery hoops and frames

Frames
I have expanded this article to include frames. Embroidery frame will redirect here. - PKM 03:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I was wondering whether to make that a separate article.  How do you think we should handle the correspondence to quilting hoops and frames?  Durova Charge! 16:28, 8 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd make a new article on quilting hoops and frames and have "see also" links between the two. Make sense to you? - PKM 16:51, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Perfect sense, thanks. Durova Charge! 00:46, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Tambour frames are different
Tambour frames differ from embroidery hoops. It isn't an earlier name for the same thing. I've never used one, but the pictures I've seen all have struts curving down below the hoop parts. They're used typically with tambour hooks.--81.98.100.51 (talk) 04:16, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Materials
You also get metal hoops, especially from machine embroidery when these are spring-loaded (rather than being tightened with a screw). There are also 'flexihoops' but I don't know really what those are. I've seen them, but haven't read a reliable description. (I think you stretch the elastic outer circle over the inner one, but not certain.)

Quilting hoops and embroidery hoops overlap. Especially, some of the former may be used for embroidery when the piece is thicker or heavier. I don't think there's a clean distinction between them, so separating them into two articles seems a bit odd. (Whereas hoops should never be used for needlepoint or canvas work.)

There are other kinds of frames, too. 'Slate' vs. 'scroll', for sure, but also 'stretcher bars'. Not all frames have webbing. Some have grooves with dowels or similar to avoid the need to sew the piece on. --81.98.100.51 (talk) 04:22, 22 February 2020 (UTC)