All things buttons & more …
Here are three lovely carved MOP buttons, each with a fascinating design. I especially like the one with the floral pattern in the centre.
They are quite large; the largest one in the centre being just over 3 1/2cm in diameter. The natural colours are also beautiful.
These three buttons were given to me by a lady who had bought them in Japan in 1974 to put on a dress. She never used them and gave them to me in 2014. I was delighted with them.
They are a beautiful blue with a bamboo design in gold and are very showy. I have mounted them on an old piece of Kimono fabric.
Black with creamy/green mottled centre with a striped border, I think this button is a very effective design and would look smart on a plain fabric. It is some type of plastic and has a metal loop shank.
MEN’S WAISTCOAT BUTTONS :
These small buttons show ladies faces and would be actresses of the time. They come from the late 1890’s or early 1900’s period and were a popular type of button. Similar types of buttons had sporting subjects or dogs on them. They have a metal loop shank and were attached with a metal slip pin.
These buttons are modern and they have a certain charm about them. They have all been carved and are realistic shapes. I think they may come from Nepal or somewhere in that area. They may not be very practical but are nice to look at.
BY YASMIN SILVAN – ISRAEL
What lovely bright buttons these are. They are made of glass and the modern designs are great. I really love glass and all the lovely colours and effects that the glassmakers achieve. It is fascinating to watch them. I would have great fun if they let me loose is a studio!!!
We have three metal picture buttons displayed here.
No. 1 Italian Villa No. 2 Bamboo Princess No. 3 Charter Oak Tree
These are all lovely examples of Picture buttons with lots of detail. Two have nice decorative borders to compliment the scenes while the Bamboo Princess is a plainer button. They would be late 1890’s or early 1900’s buttons.
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.
On their original card, these buttons are handcrafted.
I think I may have got them from an opp shop, certainly not from New Zealand when I was there in 1964. I hadn’t thought of buttons back then.
This picture button depicts a hunter and his hounds hunting deer.
It is made of moulded black glass.