{"id":393,"date":"2015-05-03T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/buttons-toggles-and-frogs-part-one-2\/"},"modified":"2015-05-03T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T15:29:00","slug":"buttons-toggles-and-frogs-part-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/buttons-toggles-and-frogs-part-one-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Buttons, Toggles and Frogs – Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nButtons- Part One<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nButton-Button Who\u2019s Got the Button?<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThis is an old children\u2019s game.  In one version a group of players are sitting in a circle with
\none player in the center.  The object of
\nthe game is to pass a button amongst the players undetected by the player in
\nthe center of the circle.  The players
\nconstantly move their hands as if they were passing the button to add
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\nButtons are common textile elements. These ordinary closure
\nitems are often overlooked, until one goes missing and a replacement is
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\nbeautiful buttons, antique and modern that 
\nadd great interest to clothing and textile art. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nOriginally, textile historians tell us that buttons found in
\nancient Egypt, Greece and Persia, were not intended to hold garments together,
\nbut rather, used as embellishments and badges of rank.  Made of metal, stone and shell they date
\nfrom circa 2,000BCE .  <\/span><\/div>\n
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\n                 A Collector’s Guide to Buttons, Diana Epstein,<\/span><\/div>\n
\n                           Walker and Co., NY, 1990<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIn the 13thC buttons appeared in Europe.  Diana Epstein (Collector\u2019s Guide to Buttons)
\nindicates \u201cEtienne Boileau, Provost of Paris, established laws governing the
\nguilds of French craftsmen, which included rules and penalties for
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\nToday, buttons are collected as objects of textile-related
\nart, some examples fetching goodly prices. There are numerous resources
\navailable for the would-be collector, including the National Button Society, www.nationalbuttonsociety.org<\/a>.  Occasionally, one can find copies of Just
\nButtons Magazine which was published monthly by the Just Button Museum of
\nSouthing, Conn. from 1944-1979.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nIt is common for collectors to classify buttons by materials
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\nEtched buttons, many different materials, including vegetable ivory<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nVegetable Ivory comes from the Tagua nut (S.A.).  After processing the material  had an ivory color as in true ivory making it a very popular material fro buttons in the last part of the 19thC.  Reportedly, there is a move to save the Tagua trees from the burning of the rain forests and, perhaps, we will see small cooperatives making these buttons in the future.<\/span>
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\nNext week, in Buttons Part Two we will look at modern buttons and discuss a few “button” trivia.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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