On with Button-box Fun, Going from the Green to the Royal Purple Background

One last fling with the lovely green bias tape and those contemporary toggles, this time in combo with the last of my little Bakelite bowls:

Necklace #73

And then to the lovely purple chirimen bias tape for a few selections:

 

Necklace #74.  Contemporary bone and horn buttons, with a couple of plastic ones made in "Holland", as the little card said....

Necklace #75.  Vintage plastic and glass-and-metal buttons, all a little bit smoky.

Necklace #76.  Contemporary horn and plastic buttons.  This one was more fun to test-drive than I expected it to be.  

Birthday Button Time Again! (and more new work)

  
 Fresh offerings of wonderful buttons for my birthday!

The green vintage plastic and red and white celluloid are from my dear friend who's known me since we were seven.  The blue covered buttons and wonderful celluloid and wooden numbers are from my cousin, a great bestow-er of treasures always.  These will be fun to play with.

And then, buttons straight from the box:

Necklace #71.  Vintage plastic buttons with a faux bamboo design, found at Bad Madge's vintage and collectibles store in San Diego's South Park neighborhood, with contemporary plastic toggles from our lovely local yarn store, Village Wools.  They are on a Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape in a green I wasn't sure was going to work, but it turns out I love it.

 

Necklace #72.  Vintage buttons of faceted plastic - most are also from Bad Madge's again.  Still on the satisfying green chirimen polyester.  

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But then there is this stash of vintage Japanese fabric ...

The fabrics were calling me.  I answered with these latest two necklaces:

 

Necklace #68.  Buttons covered with vintage kimono silk.  The little green and white buttons are from a delightful shibori-dyed silk.  The base is Japanese chirmen polyester bias tape.

Necklace #69.  Buttons covered with a vintage kimono fabric, either silk or rayon.  The accent buttons are a slick and translucent vintage plastic, sold to me as Bakelite but they may not be.  The base is Japanese woven cotton bias tape.

New Works With Old Plastics

From a downsizing sale I got a handful of bowl-shaped amber-ish Bakelite buttons to play with.  I decided it was time to try using an old buckle as the center of a necklace (and as the clasp, since you undo and re-hook it).  Here's one using the buckle, two of the little Bakelite bowls, and two little celluloid buttons with some red on them to round things off.  From a distance, there is a slight suggestion of a mouth and eyes.

 

Necklace #65.  Vintage plastic hook-and-eye style buckle, vintage Bakelite and celluloid buttons, on linen/cotton bias tape.

I wanted to do more with the little Bakelite bowls, so I used a few with vintage celluloid/metal buttons:

Necklace #66.  Bakelite and celluloid/metal vintage buttons on Japanese woven cotton bias tape.

And more textiles...

A shopping trip to the Fiber Arts Fiesta at our fairgrounds, which is sponsored by fiber arts guilds in Albuquerque, allowed me to bulk up my stash of Japanese textile fragments, from three wonderful vendors.  Getting out the new stuff lead to:

Necklace #62.  Vintage kimono silk-covered buttons and bone moon button by Bob Benson (www.bobsbuttons.com), on Japanese woven cotton bias tape.

Necklace #63.  Vintage shibori-dyed Japanese cotton covered buttons, with little kimono silk covered buttons at the ends, on Japanese woven cotton bias tape.

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Textiles! Backed by "midnight blue"

Here are two covered button pieces, one from an old kimono too stained to use as a wearable and the other from fabric printed by Miriam Sklar, with accents of overdyed kimono silk.

Necklace #60  .  Vintage kimon silk on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.

Necklace #61   .  Fabric printed by Miriam Sklar, with accent buttons of overdyed vintage kimono silk, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.

SPRING (daffodils, yes, but lots of wind....)

A few new necklaces with a sense of spring, including:

Necklace #57, floral designs in vintage celluloid and bakelite as well as old black glass buttons with botanically-themed designs, on cotton/linen bias tape.

and

 

Necklace #59, with buttons covered in vintage Japanese kimono silk on woven Japanese bias tape:  zinnias and camellias deconstructed, from entirely red, scale-like patterning to just one little tease of red.

These and their fellow necklaces are on my web album at https://picasaweb.google.com/105148425797657603947/ButtonNecklaceSelectionsMostlyCurrentlyAvailable#