Date
Friday, 26 April 2024
Time
4:00pm - 6:30pm (2½ hours)
Price
£38
Room
Deans Office
Age guidance
16+
Join Tania of TJFrog to learn how to make a beautiful Dorset Button bouquet brooch using traditional Dorset Button techniques and French knots. The finished brooch, which uses a hollow brass ring and TJFrog Shorelines & Strata double knit Dorset wool, is approximately 4.5cm in diameter.
Skills required
None
Materials required
All materials provided - handout, wool, rings, brooch pins, tapestry needles, scissors.
Teacher biography
Brought up in Dorset & now living on the Isle of Skye, Tania is a Dorset Button designer, maker, tutor, podcaster and hand knitter. Her aim is to contribute to keeping alive the heritage craft of Dorset Button making, a cottage industry dating back to the 1600s. Tania loves to use Dorset Buttons to embellish and add a personal finishing touch to handmade projects or to revitalise an old garment or accessory.