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"title": "Purse",
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"id": 309852,
"title": "Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club",
"description": "Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 21-December 30, 1984).",
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"description": "According to Elizabethan embroidery scholar Jacqui Carey, this purse and its trimmings are typical of a \u2018sweet bag\u2019, though it is missing its handle and its drawstring is damaged. The term \u2018sweet bag\u2019 was popularized in George Wingfield Digby\u2019s 1963 publication on Elizabethan embroidery; Digby used the term to describe small English purses dating from the 1500s and 1600s. The body of the purse is not the usual embroidered linen. Instead, it is a form of tubular warp-wrapping, a larger version of the structure and design found on tassels typical of the period. The body of the purse is made from a spiraling weft wrapped with multiple warp threads. It is assumed that it was made over a cylindrical form that was removed when the work was complete. The motifs are created by shifting the colored threads. Black silk warp threads that have since disintegrated expose the spiraling weft.",
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"citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. \"Gifts of the Textile Arts Club.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 33, no. 3 (March 1946): 24-26.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 22; Mentioned: p. 25",
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"citation": "Wardwell, Anne E. Material Matters: Fifty Years of Gifts from the Textile Arts Club, 1934-1984 : [Exhibition] 21 November-30 December 1984, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum, 1984.",
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