Purse mavens - I'm looking for good sites/books

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Purse mavens - I\'m looking for good sites/books

I got this email from a friend who is a very talented artist....

I am pushing to write a very
competitive grant to be finished in the next 2 weeks( eek) with a a
proposal to design a purse as an art form. Do you have an good
reference books on bags purses? websites.....?

I don't know of anything worthwhile as I am a purse spaz. Can anyone make any recommendations?

Many thanks (waving weakly - I have been NAILED with a terrible flu!).

Susan
 
There are 2 books by Eveyln Haertig, but I think they concentrate on beaded and mesh bags pretty exclusivley.

Hollis
 
Susan--

Your friend might find the "bag lady university" site helpful--a very inclusive list of makers, lots of photos of examples and vintage ads:

http://bagladyemporium.com/BLU/index.php

some titles to check out: "Purse Masterpieces", Lynell Schwartz (mostly earlier/beaded bags, with incredibly gorgeous examples); "A century of Handbags", Kate Dooner; "Bags" by Claire Wilcox (this has a great history of the purse and examples from the V & A museum).

Good luck to your friend, and hope you feel better soon!
 
- kate dooners is a must, but l havent got my own copy yet!

- Handbags (Pocket Collectors) by Judith Miller (Paperback - 6 April 2006) £7.99

- Bags, the pepin press

- Miller's Handbags: A Collector's Guide (Miller's Collector's Guide) by Tracy Tolkien (Hardcover - 16 Aug 2001)


-Handbags: What Every Woman Should Know by Stephanie Pedersen (Hardcover - 29 Sep 2006)

- A Century of Bags (Century of Style) by Claire Wilcox


hth
 
Thank you everyone - I will be sure to pass these on!

I'm sure she'll come up with something VERY interesting. Her past two projects have included naughty needlepoint and furniture re-upholstered with semi-pornographic vinyl toile (handpainted by her).

Susan
 
be sure to let us know..l always love to read anything like this..
 
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