All things buttons & more …
These two buttons are beaded in bright colours on a black velvet background in a geometric type of design. They are modern and I believe made in India. They were in the Haberdashery shops several years ago and I have a few of them. They would take some time to make. I guess they were made for the Western market.
This brightly coloured beaded button was made by Helen Pappas who now lives near Benalla in Victoria. It is just done in a simple geometric design but that is the beauty of it. The colours are much richer in reality. It measures a little over 3 cm.
These Fabric buttons all have had a shiny thread wound around probably a wooden mould then woven over in a courser thread to form a pattern In three cases they have used a contrasting colour which makes them quite effective. I have a small box full of the wooden moulds in my collection.
These Enamel buttons were given to me by a lady who bought them in Satsuma, Japan in 1974 when there on holidays. They are a brilliant blue with bamboo pictured on them in gold. The Obi fabric they are mounted on was given to me by a friend. They make quite a nice display I think .
I like the colour of these buttons from the Opp Shop. They are black with a sort of maroon pattern on them. They are plastic of some type but still look quite smart and are similar to some I have that were made in Thailand.
These white metal buttons are modern and have a squiggly pattern cut out of them on one edge which is unusual and they are not perfectly circular. So overall they are sort of abstract in their design. Actually I quite like them.
This is one lot of buttons I have found at Hospice Opp Shop. Sometimes I bought 2 or 3 small bottles full but that was a few years ago. I still check regularly as they are near The Milkbar where I sometimes have lunch. They don’t often have buttons now but it was always fun to sort through them; like a Tatts ticket to me. This lot was pretty good. It is the fun of the chase that gets you in.
This button is of matte finish clear glass in an oval shape. It is decorated with silver lustre dotted lines in a sort of abstract way which look a little like cut steels. It has a self shank. It is a reasonable size but I can’t measure it as I can’t find it!!
Here are three Arita porcelain buttons representing some of the seven Immortal Gods of Japan. Although you would not call them pretty, they are interesting and that is the case with a lot of buttons. They all make up a collection
Here are two original button cards with the buttons intact. They are ordinary buttons but I like the artwork on the cards. The producers went to a lot of trouble making the cards interesting. Today if buttons are on cards they are just plain; just a sign of the times. Not as much “care” is taken in their preparation. Do it on the computer and do it quickly! Oh! that is showing my age!