How to Make a Dorset Button - Free PDF download

Want to learn how to make a Dorset button - but prefer written instructions?

Here's a free PDF with photographic step-by-step instructions to make a Dorset Crosswheel (also known as a Cartwheel) button. Buttons made on metal rings are believed to have first been made in Dorset around 1730. They are great to use as embellishments, jewellery, and even as actual buttons! 

Click here for your download - How to Make a Dorset Button with Gina-B & Wonderfil®

Gina has teamed with WonderFil® Specialty threads for this button and uses Eleganza™ No 8 perle cotton thread for the example - along with a 25mm brass ring. 

You can find these here:

Button Moulds No 52 (Brass rings 25mm)

Eleganza™ No 8 thread - solids

Eleganza™ No 8 thread - variegated