This closer view of one of the well dressings shows
some of the detail in each panel and the even closer image below
reveals how much patience and painstaking work is required to
produce these unique works of art. Well dressing is a custom
that the people of Derbyshire are justifyably proud. The most
famous well dressings are those of Tissington and other Peak
District villages but the custom has now spread right across
the county and even across the borders into some of the neighbouring
counties. Neither is it confined these days to the villages alone.
Towns and even the city of Derby now hold annual celebrations.
Long may it continue.
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