Apply Fray-Check to the cord just below the stitching. Allow to dry and trim cord ends. Stitch lining right sides together at side seams. Insert lining into purse with wrong sides together. Turn under raw edges of lining and slip stitch to purse.
Cover coat snap with lining fabric.
Stitch to purse flap and purse front as indicated on pattern. String bugle beads onto a long length of double thread. Secure one end of the beaded thread at the piping. With a separate thread secure beads in place where the bias meets the smocking, by stitching over the doubled thread between each bead. Repeat for a second row of beads along the outer edge of the bias band.