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I'm in the midst of making loosely period Elizabethan breeches for my fiance, when I realize I can't find my antler buttons I was planning on using. Money is an object right now, but I noticed that I do have plenty of natural colored Sculpey (a bake-to-harden clay.) I know buttons with button holes were relatively new, but what would a button made of carved bone or clay at the time have looked like?
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Re: Buttons in the Middle Ages
Mon, January 12, 2009 - 11:30 AMI'll take pics of some of my antler buttons and post it to my photos. -
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Re: Buttons in the Middle Ages
Mon, January 12, 2009 - 12:13 PMSome were also fabric-covered--I'll try to dig up my bone ones and see if they might be useful. Walnut was also good hard wood for buttons. -
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Re: Buttons in the Middle Ages
Mon, January 12, 2009 - 8:18 PMWood ones would be covered in thread. If you make little clay beads, and then wrap them in thread any number of ways:
www.vertetsable.com/demos_buttons.htm
it'll be fine. Just use embroidery floss, which is 25 cents a skein. Or do anything else that site shows that suits your fancy.
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