Necklace #168
Buttons covered with vintage kimono silk on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.
This is actually a little re-style, with the big daisy-fabric button put into its center. Always nice to get yellow and purples (and reds) together.
Necklace #169.
Contemporary bone buttons from Indonesia with vintage bone buttons and vintage bone bodkins, on Japanese cotton bias tape.
My other-in-law had a little bag of old bone bodkins that must have belonged to her mother. The little faces were saved from a blouse - each one has its own expression.
Necklace is not numbered because I made it for myself. Vintage mother of pearl buttons and a Japanese wooden slider, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.
I was so delighted to find this slider at a yard sale - look at those little teeth! I finally decided to do something with it and was actually surprised that what I liked best with it were the little mother of pearl sweater buttons of decades past.
Necklace #170. Vintage celluloid buttons with yoyos of Japanese kimono cotton, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.
Sometimes a little yoyo play is a fun thing. The elaborate extruded yellow celluloid flowers were actually old earrings found in a baggie at Savers thrift store and turned into buttons.
As always, the big photo album of relatively recent necklaces is at https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9.
