Dorset Button Exhibition at Gold Hill Museum
Bankholiday Weekend from Saturday 25th to Monday 27th MayJust under eight hundred people visited the first exhibition dedicated to Dorset Buttons at Golf Hill Museum.
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| Textile artist Sally Webster with her fabric pieces modelled on the High Top and Dorset Knob Buttons |
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A work in Progress
Ancient and Modernby Anna McDowell
Using fabric created by Beaudesert Fabrics using drawings by
the celebrated fashion, portrait and war photographer Cecil Beaton and the
ancient technique of Dorset Buttons.
Cecil Beaton lived at Ashcombe House, Wiltshire.
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Re-enactors costume
Jacket from Gentleman's blue suit
Hand-dyed blue linen, embroidered with vertical bands of
silver plaited braid stitch. The background is worked with oak leaves and
acorns. The 4-tabbed doublet design was popular in the late 1630s and early
1640s.
The buttons are based on the High Top Dorset Button design.
The buttons are based on the original High Top Dorset
Buttons.
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