Purses in Pieces: Archaeological Finds of Late Medieval and 16th Century Leather Purses, Pouches, Bags and Cases in the Netherlands 2nd Edition

by Olaf Goubitz (Author)

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ISBN-10: 9089320148

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The use of purses, pouches, bags, sheaths and other containers saw its heyday in the Middle Ages. The purse became a fashion item and was an essential part of a persons outfit. This book provides a typology for all types of purse-like artefacts, in some cases inventing new terminology to describe them. The book is illustrated with finds from the Netherlands, woodcuts and other contemporary depictions, and with Goubitzs gloriously detailed reconstruction drawings.

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Editorial Reviews

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This is an important book...'
Robert N. Charrette, Schuyler, Virginia, Medieval Clothing and Textiles , vol 14 2008

...for the true historian of the purse through the ages, this is a must have for your purse book shelf.'
Melissa Overdorf, Founder, Antique Purse Collector's Society, September 2008

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Publisher : SPA Uitgevers; 2nd edition (June 30, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 118 pages
ISBN-10 : 9089320148
ISBN-13 : 978-9089320148
Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
Dimensions : 8.75 x 0.25 x 11 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,879,870 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Vince W.

Good book, not great description from seller.

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2019

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The book contents are a 10 out of 5. The seller didn’t do a great job with description. It’s the Dutch edition but is in English throughout. Also, was advertised as a hardbound book, but it’s not. If idhave known these things I wouldn’t have ordered them from over seas, but bitten it locally.

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Kammy Chinnock

Purses. . . how they really did it

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2016

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Fabulous book about purses and bags that actually existed. Rather than trying to figure out how they did it based on pictures, these purses were found in archeological digs, the detail of how they were constructed come from actual pieces. The pictures are great and the extrapolations taken from them to recreate the purses and bags are spot on.

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Thorvik

Book of historic knowledge

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2020

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This book is full of historical information, including patterns and will help in the recreation of known leather belt pouches for the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA).

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Pterodactyl13

Very useful to a leather worker or a historical recreationist and ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2015

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A detailed account of a selected region of found leather bags during the medieval period. Very useful to a leather worker or a historical recreationist and interesting information in general

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kitefella

Worth it

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2017

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Excellent

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Maddalena Gemma

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2015

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Very interesting book, especially for those involved in historical re-enactment.

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MN Pelican

Purses in Pieces

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2010

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Wonderful book with lots of examples of extant pieces from medieval times. Good book for those of us interested in research.

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have thoroughtly enjoyed the book

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2016

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have thoroughtly enjoyed the book, however, the delivery time was way too long and disappointing.

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Middle aged spread

Super book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2020

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The content is must have for anyone interested in material history.

However, the description is for a hard back and the product is not. The price is still good for the book itself, so only minor disappointment because I thought I was getting a real bargain.

Kindle-Kunde

Profi Literatur

Reviewed in Germany on November 6, 2014

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Profi Literatur für den historischen Feintäschner.
Hier wird akribisch genau rekonstruiert wie in vergangenen Zeitaltern Taschen hergestellt wurden, mit Quellenangaben zu den Funden und reichlich bebildert.
Teilweise nicht ganz leicht zu verstehen, sind die Abb. für den Profi absolut ausreichend um Rekonstruktionen zu erstellen, die auch das heutige Auge überzeugen können.
Ein Must-Have für jeden Lederhandwerker, der sich mit historischer Lebensweise beschäftigt und seine Produkte originalgetreu entwerfen möchte.

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Perfect book for leatherwork inspiration

Reviewed in France on July 21, 2017

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many pictures of archeologic finds with various sorts of leather boxes and purses
The best book to make historical objects

Bruno Le Brun

Great !

Reviewed in France on October 30, 2013

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Olaf Goubitz did really a great great work in compiling all thoses sources, analyzing them and making this so interesting book, really good, for medieval reenactors, and leather workers

agenor

super

Reviewed in France on March 25, 2011

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tres bon livre de reference, tres complet.
domage qu'il n'y ai pas plus de notes techniques pour les reproduire

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