Early in the 20th century, there was a fashion for knit or crochet purses worked in small gauges with silk threads and beads. This pattern is based on one published in 1924 as part of Emma Post Barbour’s The New Bead Book. The original was done in crochet, as is general for these heavily beaded purses with the beads worked in figures. This patt...

This pattern is for 17th century silk garters in imitation of a pair held by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. They are knit in the round and have a series of motifs in a contrast color on a reverse stockinette background.

This beaded miser’s purse is a knitted imitation of a crocheted purse from the middle of the nineteenth century in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is knit with beading cord and seed beads with a beaded tassel and fringe.