All Buttoned Up: Use Some Buttons in Your Necklace Making Projects

re: All Buttoned Up: Use Some Buttons in Your Necklace Making Projects

PeggyB@16 — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:32:11 GMT

I,too, am a button collector. Especially love the vintage ones. I'm sure you know that the crochet covered ones are Dorset buttons? You are very lucky to have some AND on the original card.

re: All Buttoned Up: Use Some Buttons in Your Necklace Making Projects

creatrice de bijoux — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:13:14 GMT

I have been blessed with my mother's button "jar" They are over 50 years old. you Some are plastic but still gorgeous. Lot of glass ones in it as well. I just love looking at them and have used some beautiful glass ones for clasps.

I am wanting to get into bezeling some but still new at that. Reading up on what to do with the shanks etc.

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JudyT@38 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:41:28 GMT

I am happy to see your article. Buttons are so cool and we have a huge selection

on our website now. I was fortunate to find a warehouse collection of Italian Metal Buttons, woo hoo! So half of them so far are put up on our website,

naturaltouchbeads.com/home.php

There are so many wrap bracelets that call for buttons, and I know y'all will love them. Plus the prices cant be beat! We will have them at the Northern California Bead Society April 21st.

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Chris Franchetti Michaels — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:13:46 GMT

Thanks for sharing the link to Angel's shop, Jennifer. She has lots of gorgeous stuff!

I need to do some serious button shopping for bracelet clasps.

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maven2 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:14:52 GMT

To Ann: I'd love to see those photos you're talking about ... could you post some type of link to them like Nancy did to her blog (thanks for that, Nancy!)? I'm sure others would like to see them, too. I have a few buttons I've been saving and some I've lusted after on various beading websites, so I'd love to find some ideas for using them in my jewelry designs.

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Ann Seri — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:19:29 GMT

I have been using buttons in my jewellery designs for awhile, either as medallions fringed with smaller beads or in a sort of 'button soup' wired collar using pinch n' twist technique (recently learned at the Grand River Bead Society!). I'll use buttons as clasps on bracelets or necklaces; they're also great incorporated into earrings - in a loop, stacked, or layered. The right button can even work as a substitute spacer/ bead cap. A friend of mine does wonderful vintage button rings!

I'd love to show you some photos!

Ann, 'Atelier Bessalel', Kitchener, ON, Canada

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Nancy Smeltzer — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:00:40 GMT

In my blog last week, ... www.fiberfantasies.com/wordpress

I wrote about attaching buttons with shanks to a stretchy bracelet that's like a watch band. It's specifically designed with 3 loops/link for attaching all kinds of things to it. While I LOVE the Czech glass buttons,and use a lot of them in my art quilts, trying to put a metal split ring through the shank just breaks it off. Also, those glass buttons used in a piece that gets a lot of friction, like a bracelet, chips the glass. IMO, they work better used as single cabochons or as part of a pendant.