Bag
1600-1650 (made), 1675-1725 (altered)
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This bag has been recycled from an early 17th-century one. The embroidery with scrolls in silver-gilt thread and flowers and birds worked in coloured silks is characteristic of the period 1600-1650. The shape of the original bag has been cut and remodelled sometime in the late 17th or early 18th century to hold a keepsake or perhaps a watch.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Linen, silk, silver thread, silver-gilt thread, silk thread; hand sewn, hand embroidered |
| Brief description | Bag, remade 1675-1725, British; of silver & silk embroidered canvas, 1600-50 |
| Physical description | A bag made of 2 pieces cut into shield-shaped panels, inverted and sewn together in the late 17th or early 18th century. Made from an early 17th-c bag of linen with tent stitch silver thread ground with plaited-braid stitch scrolls in silver-gilt thread and flowers in coloured silks with silver purl centres. The panels were once lined with red silk. |
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| Summary | This bag has been recycled from an early 17th-century one. The embroidery with scrolls in silver-gilt thread and flowers and birds worked in coloured silks is characteristic of the period 1600-1650. The shape of the original bag has been cut and remodelled sometime in the late 17th or early 18th century to hold a keepsake or perhaps a watch. |
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| Accession number | 289-1906 |
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| Record created | July 9, 2008 |
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