Purse

early 1600s Overall: 11.5 x 12 cm (4 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.416

According to Elizabethan embroidery scholar Jacqui Carey, the scale and construction of this purse and its trimmings are typical of a so-called ‘sweet bag’, a container for sweet-smelling substances. This term was popularized in George Wingfield Digby’s 1963 publication on Eli...

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