All things buttons & more …
Fabric is a very general term to cover stitched, crocheted or beaded buttons etc.
These three cover wooden button moulds. Two are very finely crocheted and one is stitched in an ecru thread onto fabric. They do not have a shank as such but must be sewn through the thread work or fabric on the back of the button.
Another new acquisition to my collection are these buttons made up with crocheted thread work and some thread also wound around a mould.
What a lovely group they are. There is a combination of ecru and pink thread used in their design; a lot of work to make one button.
Here we have a small group of Passementerie buttons which have been made with coloured thread worked over a button mould (probably wooden) in a decorative pattern. The different colours give a different effect; the thread being quite fine. I have shown one button in detail so you can appreciated the workmanship.
These three buttons are modern, each having a black velvet like background. One is covered with blue iridescent bugle beads, one has gold and black beads with pearls and the other is an abstract design with gold and blue beads. I think they make a nice group.
FABRIC BUTTONS
Fabric and Passementerie buttons is a general term which covers buttons covered with fabric and beaded or embroidered, crocheted and those with thread or braid wound over a mould ( which is mainly wooden ) and the likes.
Many were either black or ecru in colour and in the early 1900’s Paul Poiret ( a French Fashion Designer of the period ) decided to try coloured threads and braid as well as gold or silver fine wire, resulting in some really beautiful buttons. The middle row shows some of his buttons.