Have done seven bag side thumbnails so far today, from 6 bags. Have 4 more bags with only 4 sides, yet to go.

This lets me look at all the designs of the bags together. They are done to the same scale, though of course some are my estimates. It is easier to see how all the bags together are alike and different.

There are two that are much, much bigger than the norm, the Fenton House bag from Digby, and the redwork bag from the British Library. So they probably don't really belong in the group, but I'm keeping them as sweet bags. They are really more like work bags, but the design of the Fenton bag is similar, and the other is basically blackwork, and provides the only example I have of a blackwork "sweet" bag.


time spent: 5 hrs