Blog — antique button history

Victorian Buttons & NecklaceI love making antique and Victorian button jewelry. Searching for Victorian buttons for my antique button jewelry is one of my favorite adventures. Discovering jars at estate sales and hidden corners of junk shops and sorting them into colors and eras and designs is deeply satisfying.Buttons were invented in the Bronze Age. Their earliest use in Ancient Greece, the Indus Valley and China was as ornament rather than fastener. 15th Century Button from the UKButtons of bone, shell and horn are some of the earliest found. Ornamental shell buttons have been found in the Indus Valley made around...