Karen is a self confessed ‘collector of bags and to prove this she brought with her a huge collection of different types.
Karen explained that she comes from a long line of Textile workers and was surrounded by hats, bags, and clothes from a very young age.
She started collecting when she was about 6 buying her first purse at a jumble sale(for 6d – old money which some of us still remember!!), going on to collect Victorian beaded purses; Art Deco handbags with Bakelite clasps; gaming and misers purses; hanging pockets – as in the nursery rhyme ‘Lucy Locket’ and sweet bags which were scented with rose petals to disguise nasty ‘unwashed’ smells – another nursery rhyme –’Ring a Roses, a pocket full of posies’.
Some of the bags she brought to show us – far too many to photograph individually so I have shown a few that I particularly liked.
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