purses
One for the MoneyHas Tax Day left you pinching your pennies? Then you may appreciate the secure storage offered by miser’s purses. These oblong purses often have small center slit openings with sliding rings to secure coins in the purses’ ends (though sometimes clasps are used). Although these purses have existed in various forms since the seventeenth-century, they developed the shape seen here in the early nineteenth century. knitting, costume, costume accessories, netting, crochet, purses, literature, needlework |
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Purses, Pockets, PouchesMore than 150 examples are on display in this exhibition of men’s and women’s bags and purses from four centuries of European and American design. These knitted, netted, beaded, appliqued, and embroidered examples were intended for holding a range of objects, including tobacco, combs, love letters, gifts, perfume, and, of course, coins. purses, bags, pouches, accessories, Europe, America, exhibitions, ch:exhibition=35349413 |
