Textiles and Dress

Dorset button

A Dorset button is a style of craft-made button originating in the English county of Dorset. Their manufacture was at a peak between 1622 and 1850, after which they were overtaken by machine-made buttons from factories in the developing industries of Birmingham and other growing cities.

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• ▸Hussar
• ▸Carex exsiccata
• ▸Billy the Exterminator

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