We saw some interesting variations on handmade buttons during
our travels in India. The blue ones in the picture above were made from small circles
of fabric. The material is then gathered round its edge, the centre is filled
with scraps of fabric and then pulled up to form a ball. These ones are
decorative and quite soft, but with a firmer centre they could be used as
functional buttons.
The other type of handmade buttons we saw were fashioned
from simple wrapping. During a workshop at one of the women’s cooperatives we visited
we were shown this technique for button making. Our teacher there produced a
beautifully neat button by rolling a small amount of thread into a ball and
then wrapping the remaining thread round and round the outside in a circular
motion. She finished it off by passing the thread through the centre of the
ball with a needle. The buttons in the image here were made using the same
technique but less skilfully as they look a bit lumpy!
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