It was in 1970s, whilst researching the costume worn by the bondagers, that I first came across Anne Scott’s work. Her article, Women’s Working Dress on the Farms of the East Borders, in the Journal of the Costume Society was particularly helpful. This article was published in 1976 – Volume 10.
Notes on Contributors in volume 10 states: Anne Scott trained as a painter and theatrical designer. Lives and works in Melrose. Under the name of Anne Carrick, she is well-known for her costume models.
My research in the 1970s was a dissertation for the Open University – Female Agricultural Workers’ Costume in the Borders from 1890 to 1939 – A consideration of the functional aspects and the self-consciousness of style.
Like Anne I had found a subject that was to intrigue me for many years and resulted in my book Bondagers being published, with the support of the Glendale Local History Society, in 2008 and republished in 2011.
Anne Scott’s drawings show the full bondager costume (left) and the Berwickshire hat (right) (Journal of the Costume Society, Volume 10)
Anne Scott’s archive contains a note about making her first costumed figure of a bondager. She referred to these models as dolls.
One of Anne Scott’s early bondager dolls.
Another doll made by Anne Scott.
This bondager doll was kindly given to me by Lady Barbara Goodson’s family.
Anne Scott made many different kinds of dolls. Click here for an article about them.
Anne Scott died in 2015 aged 95. Click here to read the obituary published in The Scotsman.
Bondagers 