Button expert and enthusiast Anna McDowell will give a talk on Dorset Buttons: The Rise and Fall of a Local Craft at the Dorset History Centre, Dorchester at 7pm on September 18.
The Dorset button industry began in Shaftesbury in the 1620s and became a major cottage industry employing, by the 1780s, 4,000 Dorset women and children.
During the first half of the 1800s machine buttons replaced Dorset buttons.
This event is in praise of the humble Singleton, a type of Dorset button and there is a ‘button challenge’ to bring the Singleton into the 21st century.
Buttoners have contributed a button of their own design and these contributions, from all over the world, will be mounted and displayed on the evening.
Tickets are £10, including canapés and a glass of wine.
More information online at dorsetarchivestrust.org/events or telephone 01305 228945.
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