Category: WOOD

Here is a trio of little red wooden clog buttons. They have a simple flower design painted on them and have a small brass loop shank. I do not know their age but think they are fairly old. They measure 1 1/2 cm in length.

Here are two modern wooden buttons which have been etched then filled with sepia ink. The designs are very simplistic and show a fish and a yacht. They were given to me by a friend in 2011. They are sew through type and measure 1 1/2 cm.

Here are three wooden buttons that are quite hollowed out and have been painted with two spotted red toadstools. The edge has been painted with brown dashes. They are sew through type and I think fairly old.

These two wooden buttons are new and were given to me by my friend Di.  They have a tree etched into them  and are nice in their simplicity of design.

I like these two buttons and have had the green one for a long time.  It was nice to get the red one just recently.

They are concave painted wooden buttons with a white metal flower shaped escutcheon in the middle.  I show the back also to reveal the brass shank attached.  They measure 3  1/2 cm.

These wooden buttons were painted by Ross Morgan from Mooroopna.  He is descendant of the Yorta Yorta tribe of the Shepparton  area.

He had a little gallery in Shepparton and I took some blank wooden buttons in and asked him if he would paint them for me.  These buttons are the result.  They were done in 2016.  The large one with the turtle is 5 cm.  The others are 3 – 4 cm.

Both of these buttons are made of wood which has been dyed red.

They both have a simple carved design and are quite large especially the flower like one at  4 cm at the widest point.

How about some more wooden buttons today but this time old ones. ( I don’t know how old )  What quaint little buttons these are.

They were a nice surprise for me in amongst a little bag of black fabric buttons which I bought just recently.  I do not know anything about them but they are cheery and bright.

The first button has some simple lines carved in it and four cut steels added. I do not know how old it is and it appears hand made to me.

The second one is triangular in shape with a carved design.  It is a sew through type and just a little bit different.

What a nice group of buttons made from natural materials to represent Australia.

They would enhance a hand knitted home spun woollen garment.  It is just fun to try making buttons from natural materials.

One group is Red Gum Wood, one is a Banksia seedpod, another lot are Hakea seedpods and the last lot a Hakea seedpod and wood.