Elaborate Silk with Venetian Lace Overlay Edwardian Sterling Silver Elizabeth Purse

Jill Garber's Elizabeth bags are beautiful recrafted from the most wonderful antique purse frames that she has collected over her lifetime. Once she selects a frame from her collection, it is cleaned and prepared for reconstruction. Each frame is already a work of art. We add length to existing changing, updating - so that these bags have now become shoulder or across the body bags. 

The body is then constructed from nineteenth - early twentieth century hand embroidered silk crepe, selvedge from Canton or Manton trade shows. No machine embroidered silks are used. The inner linings are then made in either silk duping, linen or silk crepe. All fringes used are original antique hand twisted silk, we never use modern imported polyester as you often see in reproduction styles available on the web.

Frames are then meticulously reattached to the purse body. This is a time consuming process that requires several week to complete.

• Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Figural frame 

• Elongated Sterling Silver Rolo chaining

• Hand Embroidered in deep creme silk with antique hand stitched Venetian Lace overlay

• Lined in Silk Duponi

• An original Jill Garber Couture creation