Bag with embroidery
- Accession Loan No.
- 1057/1912
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Common Name
- bag with embroidery
- Simple Name
- bag
- Full Name
- embroidered bag
- Period Classification
- William IV (1830-1837)
- Production Year Low
- 1830
- Production Year High
- 1840
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Family Group
- Material
- satin; aerophane (silk gauze); chenille; lace (blond silk)
There are 3 comments
It is embroidered with aerophane, a type of chiffon or gauze, and chenille thread. [You wouldn’t have carried much in it.]
[Iit’s] very impractical, no room to put anything in.
I do embroidery at home..(in Turkey). Young girls are taught embroidery in their family. I learnt from my mum. Ladies in the family sit round and chat in the day, when the men are at work, and make lace or embroidery. It is a hobby. They share patterns. They make curtains and bed covers from lace, using a needle with a hook on the end. It takes a long time. They make them for themselves. If a lady is older, she makes things for her sister’s wedding. Mums also make these things for their daughters’ weddings [instead of the girls themselves,as they used to do – nowadays the girls go out to work or university.] [My mum made me hundreds of scarves. I can’t wear them all – I will give them to my children.] We also do cross-stitch. We make… bedspreads…, for example. I bring out the special things we make on special days like Bayram, a Muslim celebration, when people go to each others’ houses. Then we decorate the house with the special things. These things can’t be used every day.