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Tools of the Trade => The Haberdashery => Topic started by: ajuga on April 07, 2017, 11:29:11 AM
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Do you all have button boxes/tins. I now have two as have so many button but I can always find what I need without having to buy more.
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Mine looks like this, it's full to the brim!
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61nQTgCv2cL._SL1000_.jpg)
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I've got two - my mum's and one that I started years ago. Funny though I never have what I need and have to go and buy new buttons. Some of the buttons in mum's box do bring back memories of clothes worn years ago.
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In a rare fit of organization I sorted my buttons into colours. It does make things easier to find but somehow the separate boxes don't have the same allure.
Fran I love your tin, but buttons should really be stored in a 1930s biscuit tin with a wonky lid.
Why did I find it necessary to keep said tins after I had sorted all the buttons? ;)
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DD sorted all my buttons a few years ago, and mine are kept neatly(?) in a drawer. However, as my button stash has grown, I've begun to keep some of them in the empty face cream jars which I use for weights.
I have to say, I don't miss rooting through the old tins, but like you EB, I kept the tins.... ;)
Jessie
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Mine are sorted by size and colour and placed in plastic bags. These bags are inside a sewing box. I don't have many buttons ( you won't be amazed to know :D ) but some are very pretty :)
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Ughhh... the thought of a button box brings me out in a cold sweat!
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Lowena, I hope you have something in mind for those buttons or we will have to categorize them as 'stash' :ninja: ;)
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Wash your mouth out Ella :devil: :D
They adorn cushions and are used as eyes for soft toys ( not used by children ) :angel:
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I only have a very small button box but the collection is growing. Things I have made over the years have either gone to charity shops or are still hanging in the wardrobe so not many buttons get recycled.
I wish I had my grandmother's button box. It was a huge cardboard box, full to the brim.
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Fran I love your tin, but buttons should really be stored in a 1930s biscuit tin with a wonky lid.
I think they not only have to be 1930s biscuit tins, but also tartan shortbread tins. ;) The hours I spent sorting through my Nanna's button tin as a child! 0_0
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I have 2 - one for coloured buttons and one for white buttons, both pinched from my mother. I have some real old buttons in there and have used some of them. I loved rummaging through the button box when I was little. My kids never found the joy in that though ><
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How can anyone NOT have a button tin?
And how many of you still have a supply of your children's name tapes in your tins?? I can't just throw them away...
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......And how many of you still have a supply of your children's name tapes in your tins?? I can't just throw them away...
I still have a few of my daughter's name tapes in my sewing box and she is 29 this year <3
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Neither my children nor my grandchildren have ever had to have name tapes -< for anything -<
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I still have a few of my daughter's name tapes in my sewing box and she is 29 this year <3
Mine are 35 and 33. :[
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And how many of you still have a supply of your children's name tapes in your tins?? I can't just throw them away...
I have a bit of catching up to do, but yes I still have name tapes for my eldest who is 20 this year (*and I'm whispering that really cos I am far too young to have a 20 year old, aren't I? :D )
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Ahhh ....Cash's name tapes... Mine... well my Mothers had all our initial's JC PD JM then our surname so they could be folded up to form the correct name... :D :thread:
I only had one DD so it wasn't a problem
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Neither my children nor my grandchildren have ever had to have name tapes -< for anything -<
So did you hand embroider their names inside school uniforms? :|
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I don't have a button tin, my buttons are colour sorted and live in a set of clear plastic drawers from B&Q - with a Ferrero Rocher box holding the excess white shirt buttons and a huge batch of black buttons I acquired somewhere or other.
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My button box is the same as Francesca's.
It is barely a third full, if that.
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So did you hand embroider their names inside school uniforms? :|
None of them, now aged 43,41, 16,12,10 and 8 have ever been to any school which has required names in uniform ( although they all had/ have strict uniform codes ) -<
Likewise sporting / gym/dance clubs have never requested it either, even when on tours.
Never had any problems with lost ( or extra ) clothing items......perhaps they're just organised from an early age :D
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Yes, the Cash name tapes. I'm sure there are odd ones in one of my button tins - can't throw them away. Just remembered I also have a third button tin just with white shirt buttons (not sure why) but just can't throw away a button!
I used to love going through my Mum's button tin and remember in particular some buttons which looked like oblong fried eggs. Must ask her if she still has her button tin.
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I have a middle-sized Really Useful Box for my buttons. Inside it, they are bagged by colour. Press studs and hooks get another bag, eyelets another, and frog fastenings another. The lid is starting to strain, yet I never have the right buttons for a job. Fortunately, I can nip into Brum easily enough to stock up on goodies from the market...and there are plenty of suppliers online too.
I dodged buttons for years as none of my machines ever made a nice buttonhole...but now I have my vibtage Singer one, happiness is ever at hand!
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I am very happy to say that I own literally thousands of buttons :D Most of them were inherited from Mum, Grannies and elderly friends. They are now strung as sets and stored by colour, in large glass kitchen storage jars. My grandchildren helped with the stringing and sorting and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Among the whites are many bone and pearl buttons from great grannies time. I remember them on my childhood dresses and used them on my own DDs. clothes. Now they are much in demand by DGDs. Buttons can hold so many memories and can make or break an item of clothing.
Eldest DGD (13) calls them little treasures and I believe she is right. :)
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Ahhh ....Cash's name tapes... Mine... well my Mothers had all our initial's JC PD JM then our surname so they could be folded up to form the correct name... :D :thread:
I only had one DD so it wasn't a problem
I inherited my Mum's sewing cabinet, and they were in one of the drawers with mine and my brothers initials on, so she could fold them as required. They are still as white and bright as the day they were bought and they must be 50 years old.
I do have a button box, sorted in colours.
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Yes I used to love sorting through my Mum's and grannie's button tins. Not sure what happened to the actual tins but some of the buttons are in my possession and still get a look through from time to time. It's amazing what memories a button can evoke .... that cardigan mum knitted that I so loved because of the 'sooty' buttons and coming across one of the bigger buttons I'm way back doing it up on my coat on the way to Sunday school!
My accumulations of buttons are in an 'SMA Gold' baby milk tin which in itself is so special. It may not have the kudos of an antique biscuit tin but how pleased I was to be buying it as after numerous miscarriages and still births I was lucky enough to adopt a baby. We'd told the agency that we were prepared to take an older child so it was a big surprise to be handed a seven day old baby :) Buying that tin was momentous indeed <3
And yes in another draw are the left over name tags .... both sons and mine! (In actual fact very few of them ever got sewn on 0_0. In case you are wondering Lowena I've kept them as one of these days I might incorporate them into an arty farty crazy quilt or something together with photos printed on fabric. ie the same reason I keep all the scraps!!
L :vintage:
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Lantana what a special tin <3
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I was looking in Waterstones for something to read and picked up this book as I liked the cover. It's called "The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore" and I'm enjoying it. Anyone else read it? :)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B018WYGLY4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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When I was in Sydney a few years ago I came across a button shop - just selling buttons in all shapes, sizes, colours. Spent a while in there. :)
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I was looking in Waterstones for something to read and picked up this book as I liked the cover. It's called "The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore" and I'm enjoying it. Anyone else read it? :)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B018WYGLY4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Looks really interesting. I've just downloaded a sample of it on kindle, so might go on to buy it as a real book, cos I think my mum would like it too.
Suzie :vintage:
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I was looking in Waterstones for something to read and picked up this book as I liked the cover. It's called "The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore" and I'm enjoying it. Anyone else read it? :)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B018WYGLY4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Oh yes that does look interesting. I've added it to my wish list. :)
L :vintage:
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Buttons! Button boxes! Love them. Here's my offering .....
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Lovely boxes - all full?
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Yep. But you kind of suspected that didn't you??! ;)
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Well you all know what I keep my buttons in ....
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Still loads to get new homes for!
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What a lovely chest of drawers Iminei.
I was in town this morning and there was a picture in the window of an art shop made entirely of buttons. It was very effective.
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Gorgeous button drawers Iminei. My button storage is rather boring, I keep them in empty tea tins (Twining Earl Grey) that are labeled on the lid with permanent marker (spare buttins, shirt buttons, snap buttons, metal shank buttons, etc.). The tins fit neatly in a narrow drawer unit next to the door to the sewing room.