For a certain kind of crafter, nothing pushes their buttons like, well, buttons. And among button collectors, vintage buttons appear to be a favorite find. While a few button stores still exist - ...

If you have a few of grandmother's buttons, or find some vintage buttons in an antique store, you can transform an ordinary shadowbox frame into an interesting work of art in less than an hour.

Chelsey Clark's children call her "The Tinker Fairy" because she finds lost things -- buttons mostly. But Clark's buttons aren't off just any old shirt. Mostly they are little works of art gleaned ...

I’m Ellen Khachadourian. I’m a Clifton Park resident, a mother of four, part-time transcriptionist and a have been married for 24 years. I’m also a collector of antique buttons. How did you become ...

Horse jewelry. That's what you're looking at in the photograph at right. These lovely glass buttons were decorative ornaments for bridles in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Many of them have ...

The buttons come in a dizzying array of colors, sizes and materials -- from porcelain and mother-of-pearl to celluloid, stenciled tin and Bakelite. The "flapper girls" are china buttons made in ...

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Exhibit: The button exhibit can be viewed through March at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave., Coeur d’Alene. Club: The Historical Button Club meets at noon the second Wednesday of ...