Sew stylish shoulder bags, totes, clutches, and drawstring bags! Whether you're a total beginner or a confident sewist who loves to finish a project in one sitting, you'll love this modern collection of thirteen bags you can truly make your own. Turn flat fabric into handbags of any shape when you learn the basics of construction, transferring a pattern, and finishing details. A must-have primer for the beginning sewist!
An exploration of the role of the handbag in the history of culture, fashion, and material production
For anyone who feels she can never have too many handbags, this book is for you.
A photographic history of a wide array of handbags and purses ranges from the elegant to the eccentric and includes a captivating account of the various functions of the handbag throughout the twentieth century.
She'll just start a business! Yet starting a business isn't as easy as it seems. Mallory finally earns enough to buy what she wants. But if her business is such as success, why does Mallory feel like such a failure?
Decade by decade, this text recounts over 100 years of handbag history, from Elsa Schiaparelli's mesh bags for Whiting & Davis in the 1920s through the Hermes Kelly bag in the 1950s to the Fendi Baguette of the 1990s.
This unique fashion book includes five stunning pop-ups, showcasing iconic handbags.* Bags to Love is a witty and fascinating homage to one of the most essential elements of a woman's wardrobe: the handbag.* From its fashion-forward cover ...
This book shows how to make 40 bags and miscellaneous goods with very simple, clear-cut instructions that even total beginners can follow. What makes this book special is that it has patterns with stitch marks at the end of the book.
"Bag Boutique" includes 30 projects for making traditional or trendy bags, complete with a range of techniques that makes it a snap to go from sewing room to shoulder in no time.
"Using wonderful fabrics, trims, and accents, the talented designers from Ruby Tag Bags have created more than 25 fabulous, one-of-a-kind purses that women will have to own and love to make.
This do-it-yourself book for stylish handbags features 25 projects with more than 500 illustrations.