Dorset Buttons
This books gives a short history of hand-made buttons through the centuries and then an appraisal of the rural cottage industry of East Dorset making the different types of buttons from locally resourced materials, its founder Abraham Case to its almost overnight demise during the Industrial Revolution, a history of the Lytchett Minster Button shop to the recent Dorset Button revival.
This books gives a short history of hand-made buttons through the centuries and then an appraisal of the rural cottage industry of East Dorset making the different types of buttons from locally resourced materials, its founder Abraham Case to its almost overnight demise during the Industrial Revolution, a history of the Lytchett Minster Button shop to the recent Dorset Button revival.
