Materials:
Approximately 3500 size 11/0 black beads, 40 size 6 amber beads.
Size 1.50 mm crochet hook or the size that works with your silk thread.
2 short sections of 3/8” copper pipe.
60/2 superfine silk weaving yarn.
Beading needles.

Finished size: 2 1/4” x 11”

Pattern is based on Victorian miser’s purse patterns. Miser’s purses were used through most of the 19th century to hold coins. Some purses had different colored silks or beads on each end to differentiate what coins (gold or silver) were in each pouch, others had a round pouch on one end and a square one on the other.

Monogram uses the font Nasty enlarged to fit centered in a 40 x 40 pixel space and charted on graph paper. Remember to make your monogram a reversed image because you will be dropping your beads on the wrong side of the work.