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Vintage Buttons Yay!!

Foofoogal

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Sat down for 3 hours the other day and sorted buttons out of a large tin. Now to figure out what I have. I even have a button book but it is so hard. This thread helps.
 

Lady Day

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I unpacked the last of my things, and I cleaned my shadow boxes. I went through all my buttons (mmm fun!) and got some of my older and more collectable button cards.

My 20s/30s box

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My Pilchers box.

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My 40s box.

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Makes me wish I have more shadow boxes. :)

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Foofoogal

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fabulous. what is the bottom middle one. the Art Deco colorful lady one. I swear I think I have a postcard that matches from the picture as good as I can tell.
 

olive bleu

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i love those buttons, my MIL ,quite a few years ago, knit me a lovely bright red cardi, that has those buttons on it. sadly, this lovely sweater seems to have shrunk in recent years.:rolleyes:
 

Lorena B

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I absolutely love this thread!!
I wish i had my buttom boxes here ( i left them at my man´s in Holland)
They are from my grandmother, she is very fond of sewing and knitting and for years has been putting them in big black bags.
When i left UK, i declutted her house and brought all the bags with me, i have sorted some of them out but they are too many.
Now they are resting by colors in few large cookies tins mixed with necklaced beads.
On top, i also have been buying myself some more from Etsy.
I often joke that i have a buttoms supply for life!!

You can really say I love buttons toolol
 

sixsexsix

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Does anyone know where to find really small half ball buttons for covering? I need a size 14, and the smallest I have been able to find is a 16.
Thanks
 

sixsexsix

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I'm pretty sure they don't exist any more :( I have been to all the best notion shops in the city and spent the majority of my work day scouring google, ebay, etsy, anything I could think of. I think I am going to have to rip out the other 9 buttons and replace all of them because I can't match 1. So annoying!
 

ShoreRoadLady

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Alas, tiny covered buttons seem to be hard to find. Especially if you need a particular shape.

Sixsexsix, have you tried looking for buttons with the inch measurement, instead of the size? Especially on Ebay/Etsy, people might not bother to list the size when the inch measurement is right there.
 

sixsexsix

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yup, tried by button size (ligne), metric size (mm) and imperial size (inches). i just ended up buying some size 14 mother of pearl shank buttons and replacing them all as I want to wear the dress tomorrow. bummer!
 

Lady Day

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Todays theme: Hook and eye cards from the 20s/30s

Ive always LOVED the graphics on hook and eye and snap fastener cards. Here are some I just got around to photographing.

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