Beadwork bag
name: label: maker
content: McGuire, Agnes
notes: label: Description
content: A knitted beadwork drawstring-closure bag with an upper design of a continuous floral motif between saw tooth borders. A lower design of cabins and trees. It was owned and probably made by Agnes McGuire (1764-1850). Knitted and/or beaded bags and purses were fashionable in the 1800s. The bags were made on knitting pins of very fine wire using colored and opalescent glass beads strung on a skein of netting silk in the order indicated by the printed pattern (knitting one, knitting one with a bead, repeat). The beads had to be strung on the thread in exact order or the picture would not turn out correctly when knitted. Agnes McGuire was born in Ireland in 1764. She married Robert Robinson (1763-1815) March 1787. They were prominent early settlers of Kittanning, PA, where they raised three children - Robert, Sarah, and Nancy. Agnes died August 25, 1850 in Kittanning, PA.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: made at
content: United States
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Victorian Needlework
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Helen P. Bray
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T9307
label: catalog number
content: T09307.000
label: accession number
content: 170960
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beadwork
label: Object Type
content: beadwork
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: beads (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in; 16.51 cm x 13.335 cm