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Here are two groups of Clear Perspex buttons from my collection. They mainly have metal centres with various designs on them. A few have metalized plastic centres. They are in varied sizes, none really small.

This is an old Fabric covered button and the fabric is sort of Tapestry type in a burgandy colour. It has a threadback which was quite common in the early 1900s or late 1800s. I am not sure how old this button is but I like it.

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!!