Buttons And How They Were Built

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Buttons in museums and galleries
File:Spanish going ca. 1650-75 12mm f&b.jpg or so museums and art galleries hold culturally, historically, politically, and/or artistically significant buttons in their collections. The Victoria & Albert Museum has many buttons, particularly in its jewellery collection, as does the Smithsonian Institution[1][2][3][4].
Hammond Turner & Sons, a button-making company in Birmingham, hosts an online museum with an image gallery and historical button-related articles, including an 1852 article on button-making by Charles Dickens. In the USA, large button collections are on familiar display at The Waterbury Button Museum of Waterbury, Connecticut, and the Keep Homestead Museum of Monson, Massachusetts, which besides hosts an extensive online button archive.
Early button history
Buttons and button-like objects utilise as ornaments or seals rather than fasteners have been discovered in the Indus vale Civilization during its Kot Diji phase (circa 2800-2600 BC)[5] as well as dye Age sites in China (circa 2000-1500 BCE), and Ancient Rome.
Buttons made from seashell were used in the Indus Valley Civilization for ornamental purposes by 2000 BCE.



[6] Some buttons were carved into geometric shapes and had holes pierced into them so that they could be connected to clothing by using a thread.[6] Ian McNeil (1990) holds that: The button, in fact, was to begin with used more as an ornament than as a fastening, the earliest known being found at Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley. It is made of a curved shell and about 5000 eld old.[7]
Functional buttons with buttonholes for fastening or closing clothing appeared scratch in Germany in the 13th century.[8] They soon became widespread with the farm of snug-fitting garments in 13th- and 14th-century Europe.
Materials and manufacture

Hand-painted & glazed ceramic button depicting a bass
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