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Bag

ca. 1925 (made)
Artist/Maker
Wagner-Ascher, Hilde (designer)
Place of origin
Austria (made)

Embroidered bag with a purse and mirror, designed by Hilde Wagner- Ascher, Austria, ca. 1925

Object details

Categories
Accessories
Embroidery
Textiles
Fashion
Bags
Object type
Bag
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Bag
  • Purse
  • Mirror
Materials and techniques
Embroidered
Embroidered
Brief description
Bag with purse and mirror, cotton, designed by Hilde Wagner-Ascher, Austria, ca. 1925
Physical description
Embroidered bag with a purse and mirror, designed by Hilde Wagner- Ascher, Austria, ca. 1925
Gallery label
(12/2020)
Needlework has long been a favourite technique to embellish bags. 18th-century designs for embroidered bags by Margaretha Helm were printed and circulated in pattern books for others to copy. Hilde Wagner-Ascher created her own technical drawing to precisely record the geometric design for her clutch bag. She used squared paper to map every individual stitch for the embroiderer to follow. Viewed alongside the finished bag, the drawing shows how faithful the final piece remained to the designer’s vision.

V&A, Room 40, Bags: Inside Out.
Object history
Purchased. Registered File number 1987/1716.
Associated object
T.287A-1987 (Design)
Bibliographic reference
Bags V&A Exhibition (Project) Bags: Inside Out (2020) Lucia Savi, V&A Publishing, pg 41
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.287, B&C-1987

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O351556/bag-wagner-ascher-hilde/
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