Welcome!

21/04/2012

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Button Bouquet Beaubuttons Wedding Red
Intros...
Always going to be the hardest post, where to start?

I guess introductions are polite? So here we go...
I'm Emma, owner of Beaubuttons.  Mother of two pretty spectacular children and wife to my wonderful husband.

About 2 years ago, along with my own engagement I fell in love with weddings, in all their many varieties! Since then my passion for creating unique alternative keepsake bouquets for fabulous brides and grooms has grown and grown.

I now find myself sat in my home studio surrounded by beautiful vintage buttons on a daily basis, and honestly... I couldn't be happier! I absolutely adore creating bespoke designs for individual tastes. I feel so blessed to have found a little pocket within this world in which I get to sit and create for hours.

I look forward to sharing my new designs, real couples, exciting news and other inspirational wedding ideas with you. Comments would make me smile even more! :) 
 


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Tina Smith
10/05/2012 15:21

Buttons

Collecting buttons has been one of the most popular hobbies of all times. Buttons can be used for a variety of purposes, right from holding a coat secure, to card-making and appliqué-work. But most importantly buttons add a touch of beauty and colour to life. Buttons are one of those little joys that create life delightful.

Some 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.

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 collect are on public display at The Waterbury Button Museum of Waterbury, Connecticut, and the Keep Homestead Museum of Monson, Massachusetts, which also hosts an extensive online button archive.

Early button history

Buttons and button-like objects used as ornaments or seals rather than fasteners have been discovered in the Indus Valley Civilization during its Kot Diji phase (circa 2800-2600 BCE) as well as Bronze 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. Some buttons were carved into geometric shapes and had holes pierced into them so that they could be attached to clothing with thread. Ian McNeil (1990) holds that: "The button, in fact, was originally 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 years old."
Functional buttons with buttonholes for fastening or closing clothes appeared first in Germany in the 13th century. They soon became widespread with the rise of snug-fitting garments in 13th- and 14th-century Europe.


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