Purse

early 1600s Overall: 6.5 x 9.5 cm (2 9/16 x 3 3/4 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.283

According to Elizabethan embroidery scholar Jacqui Carey, this purse and its trimmings are typical of a ‘sweet bag’, though it is missing its handle and its drawstring is damaged. The term ‘sweet bag’ was popularized in George Wingfield Digby’s 1963 publication on Elizabethan...

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