Dorset Buttons



Dorset Button Exhibition at Gold Hill Museum

Bankholiday Weekend from Saturday 25th to Monday 27th May

Just under eight hundred people visited the first exhibition dedicated to Dorset Buttons at Golf Hill Museum.

Textile artist Sally Webster with her fabric pieces modelled on the High Top and Dorset Knob Buttons 

A work in Progress

Ancient and Modern
by 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.



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.