English linen embroidered purse

An image of Embroidery/Purse. Linen, coarse, worked with coloured silks, gilt and silver metal threads; lined with green-yellow silk, length 4.3/4 in, width 5.1/4 in. Production Place: England, after 1601 to 1630.

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Embroidery/Purse. Linen, coarse, worked with coloured silks, gilt and silver metal threads; lined with green-yellow silk, length 4.3/4 in, width 5.1/4 in. Production Place: England, after 1601 to 1630.

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Accession Number: T.3-1940
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 906 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 1.21MB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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17th Century clothing costume Elizabethan embroidered embroidery English fashion Fitz_AA floral flowers linen metallic purse silk Stewart Period stitches stitching Stuart Period tapestry textile

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