Bag
ca. 1925 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Embroidered bag with a purse and mirror, designed by Hilde Wagner- Ascher, Austria, ca. 1925
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | 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 | 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. (12/2020) |
| 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
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.287, B&C-1987 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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