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This domed button has thread and braid in a chocolate brown colour wrapped around a mould and topped with beading.

It is very dressy and would grace any appropriate outfit.  It is a more modern button with a plastic back and shank.

Here is another button with braid wrapped around a mould (probably wooden) in a star like pattern.  It would have been a time consuming task.  It is very effective and may have been worn on a fur coat.

I made this button in 2007 on an antique piece of button covering equipment.  It belonged to Kate Boulton who owned the button shop Buttonmania in Melbourne at the time.

It is a piece of hand dyed material and was just a fun thing to do.  It is quite large at 4 cm.

I guess this old button would have a wooden mould inside the crocheted outer.  It does not have a shank as such and can just be sewn onto a garment through the crochet stitches on the back.  At 3  1/2cm it is quite large.

Here we have three modern braided buttons.

The red and navy ones are the same with a matching plastic disc in the centre.  The black one has a velvet centre surrounded by a brass rim.  They all have  a black plastic back with the markings LPC 45 and measure just under 3 cm.