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Antique Silk Faille Bag ~ Project / Study

Needs some work, but not much and not difficult.


For students of fashion history and the development of style in America, for those who love to restore worthwhile period pieces and for those who are interested in quality re-enactments and theater, this beautiful, sophisticated silk bag is ideal for you.  It has a body of paneled construction decorated with steel cut beads in fiddlehead fern form. Dates to c1875 and de-accessioned from the Brooklyn Museum, New York City.  Museum tags remain attached. Meticulously handmade and beautifully detailed with edges of each panel having rows of cut steel beads descending into a sparkling cluster at bottom center. Two silk loops for handles, each around 10.5" long when doubled. They are held together at the top by a collar of cut steel beads and by a silver tone ring, so the bag may hang suspended from a chatelaine or a sash or from your finger. The purse body is about 7" long laid flat and about 7 1/5" wide.

Full condition report in the Condition Description box above.  If you are interested in the history of fashion in America, in early textiles and design ~ their restoration and repair, proper care and storage, if you are interested in creating fashion, in re-enactments, in Victorian design or in theater wardrobe details, this bag offers you the perfect opportunity for study and/or a project.  It also offers  you, when repaired, something distinctive, unusual and of excellent materials to complete your ensemble.   It is more than worthy of restoration, and the restoration should not be that difficult at all.  An enchanting Belle Epoch bag.