The Sewing Place
Tools of the Trade => The Haberdashery => Topic started by: charlotte on September 04, 2017, 12:09:44 PM
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Does anyone know if it is possible to buy 9mm (or smaller!) self cover buttons? The smallest I can find is 11mm and I really do want them that teeny tiny bit smaller!
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/111457962770?chn=ps&dispItem=1&adgroupid=45192390362&rlsatarget=pla-331477150732&abcId=1129006&adtype=pla&merchantid=101764052&poi=&googleloc=9045169&device=c&campaignid=861899495&crdt=0
Longest link in the world! I need to re-read how to shorten them. :[
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I have just read the listing and you seem to need a tool to make them ..good price though
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The tools are like this (https://www.johnlewis.com/prym-universal-button-cover-tool/p301745?sku=231412919&s_kwcid=2dx92700016886123640&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=CjwKCAjw87PNBRBAEiwA0XAIr8kmp_Pg6zcKXY88fUWe7f3Is5kzmmgdW4OzXJH3ANCcy_ohPWqxWxoCAd0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds) or this (https://www.gursewingmachines.com/buttons-and-buckles/self-covered-buttons-/self-cover-button-tool/self-cover-button-tool-5321-hd). If you buy a tool you need to be sure it goes down to 9mm (neither of those go small enough). You also need to allow for a few failures when you cover your own :o
I needed a lot of buttons covered a while ago (pleated curtain headings) and I had them professionally covered - they use proper clamps to align the moulds and backs so the results were good.
http://buttoncovering.co.uk/ (http://buttoncovering.co.uk/)
Turnaround was only a few days, though obviously you have to order by post as you have to send her the fabric first.
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Thanks. I had avoided these due to not having the tool and not finding one that went small enough, but for £1.95 for 10 (I only need three!) I am going to purchase and see what I can invent from the tool box...
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I had some very small ones in white plastic which I covered for a chiffon blouse. Basically you gathered the circle so it pulled up inside the front cover and then pushed the little back in by hand. I'll go and see if I still have the packet with the name.
Uh oh, I have two, Coats and Newey - both probably out of business now. Sorry.
The packet shows someone using the end of an old cotton reel as a tool to push the back on. I wonder if it would work with the ones you are buying?
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When I had the waistcoat business (early '90's) I occasionally sent off buttons to be covered with the clients fabric if requested.
It was V cheap and gave good results. I still have a few tiddlers kicking around in my button box ... plus the kit for some too. No the kit buttons are over a cm. Sorry!