Elizabethan Sweet Bags

This is the first sweet bag I made, which was based on an article I read in Inspirations Magazine (an awesome Australian publication focused on embroidery).  It is mostly crewelwork done on a gold silk jacquard fabric.  After I made this bag and entered it in an Arts and Science competition, I found that I was pretty far off a sweet bag.  But its still a beautifully embroidered bag.

This is the second rendition of the documentation I wrote for the "Sweet Bag", which explains why it is not actually a sweet bag!  This is an embroidered bag, and has many late period stitches.  Much of the information I used in this documentation came from Jacqui Carey's book, "Sweet Bags: An Investigation into 16th & 17th Century Needlework".