All things buttons & more …
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.
These needle books were a very fancy way of storing different size needles and the pictures on them depict the fashion and hairstyles of their day. Nowadays they are expensive to buy and not so easy to find.