Tribe.net. Local Connections Octavia http://historical-costume.tribe.net/thread/6164deeb-64a0-4b80-8776-91ebe7079e32#08fb4569-169c-4862-9c85-21c492567b2d 2009-01-13T04:18:23Z 2009-01-13T04:18:23Z

Wood ones would be covered in thread. If you make little clay beads, and then wrap them in thread any number of ways: http://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.

Octavia 2009-01-13T04:18:23Z Alanna http://historical-costume.tribe.net/thread/6164deeb-64a0-4b80-8776-91ebe7079e32#f3dc86ba-928f-4de6-bd21-adb8577f3d58 2009-01-12T20:13:36Z 2009-01-12T20:13:36Z

Some 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.

Alanna 2009-01-12T20:13:36Z Alanna http://historical-costume.tribe.net/thread/6164deeb-64a0-4b80-8776-91ebe7079e32#789ad65f-42d3-4131-be1b-5cc7562b674c 2009-01-12T19:30:35Z 2009-01-12T19:30:35Z

I'll take pics of some of my antler buttons and post it to my photos.

Alanna 2009-01-12T19:30:35Z Allison http://historical-costume.tribe.net/thread/6164deeb-64a0-4b80-8776-91ebe7079e32#b45b0e24-4f9b-4cc6-8fad-e05c10df057d 2009-01-12T19:23:08Z 2009-01-12T19:23:08Z

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?

Allison 2009-01-12T19:23:08Z