small coin purse - change the gauge, change the size!

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This little purse is from Amantani Island on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca. It is knit as a cylinder from bottom to top, and is closed at the bottom with a three-strand warp twining in three colors. Or, the bottom could be handstitched or crocheted together. The original purse has red, white and navy twining and a woven strap of plain weave with a dot pattern formed by alternating two colors of warps….The oblique openwork pattern in the top section of this purse is unusual….Marcelina Mamani calls this flexible netlike stitch rejilla.