Who is Gina Barret?
Gina Barrett has been making reconstructions of buttons, dress trimmings and other passementerie for museums and costumiers since 1999. Her work can be seen in a variety of museums, heritage sites & stately homes including the Royal Mews, the Royal Armouries, Historic Royal Palaces, Chicago Museum of Art, The Victoria & Albert Museum, English Heritage and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
She has provided buttons, ribbons and braid for an award-winning project at Perth Museum, and hundreds of buttons for the films “Napoleon” & “Sweeney Todd”. She has created buttons & trimmings for various series including “The Crown”, “Becoming Elizabeth” , “A Stitch in Time” as well as a few films yet to be released!
As an avid collector of antique & vintage textile buttons, Gina continues to research and to write about both old techniques and newly developed ones.
Please bring your own scissors