Having seen the pictures of the Dorset Buttons on the links sent to the
list, made me realise that I have a couple of similar buttons in my button
box. They were left in this house by the German lady we bought the house
from. I found them in the sewing basket the lady left for me. She left a
lot of personal items in the house, if it wouldn't go in the car on their
last day here then it got left behind for us to use or dispose of as we saw
fit.
I thought the buttons were something from Germany but now I wonder if these
too are from Dorset and had been exported to Germany perhaps.
They are very plain to look at and are made, I think, with white cotton
thread. The ring is covered with very tightly packed stitches and spokes go
to the centre, the spokes too are tightly packed into the middle of the
ring. Just inside the outer ring are two circles of what look to be very
tiny chain stitches worked in and out of the spokes. The centre of the
button is the hardest part to see how it was made because the buttons must
have been laundered so much. But it looks like a bunch of threads on both
sides of the centre. These buttons look to me as though they would have
been everyday sort of buttons for use on household linens or something of
that kind as they are not really very decorative and they do look as they
have been well laundered.
I found this site for making the buttons http://dorsetbuttons.com/
And this site has some very colourful buttons
http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/Home/DorsetButtons.html
Regards
Jenny DeAngelis
Spain.
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