I first encountered Dorset buttons when reading Burning Bright, a Tracy Chevalier novel that follows a family of button-makers as they make a new life in London during the eighteenth century.
Silk is one of the marvels of the natural world, and making silk for embroidery is one of the wonders of human ingenuity.
American author and poet Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was born. Here’s the needlework connection to this date.
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