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Kings Queens and Buttons

Six, ten foot, charred hazel poles, each holding approximately 2,000 wild teasels some of which have been dyed black. A work commissioned by Blackdown Hills Artists and Makers, in response to the past history of growing teasels in Somerset, teasels that were used to raise the nap on cloth.
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