Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 01:48:52 -1000
Subject: Re: H-COST: pearl buttons
From: [email protected] (Karen J Farris)
-Poster: [email protected] (Karen J Farris)
Greetings, Annora. I've done a lot of research on period gloves, and in
the 16th Century pearl buttons were very popular on gloves.
Karen Farris
The Dressmakers
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Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 05:06:41 -1000
From: Diane Barr
Subject: Re: H-COST: pearl buttons
Genuine pearls? Drilled for use as buttons? Mother of pearl? shaped into round balls?
shanked? Imitation? Made of...paste? what composition possible? coated? Were
pearls sewn on 16 century garments drilled through the center or edges? were they
encased in bezels? Are imitation contemporary pearl buttons with gold or silver rims
appropriate? I've read that it took a diver a lifetime to find 4 matching pearls.
Cheers, Diane
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Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 22:14:29 -1000
Subject: H-COST: Button p.s.
From: "r.l. shep"
Planche says: I do not find any mention of buttons previous to the Norman
Conquest, nor does the Anglo-Saxon dress seem to have required them. The
earliest appearance, as well as allusion to them, that I have met with is in
the reign of Edward I, when the introduction of tighter fitting garments
rendered them as useful as they were ornamental. In a MS. poem (Cotton,
Julius), not later than 1300, are the following lines:
*Botones azur'd (azure,blue) wor ilke ane
>From his elboth to his hand.*
- and then he goes on about later references, but no mention of Pearl Buttons.
R.L. Shep
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Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 12:27:02 -1000
From: [email protected] (Deborah Pulliam)
Subject: H-COST: h costume: pearl buttons
I know that most of the pearl (or mother of pearl) buttons used in England
during the Victorian era were made from shells taken from the Thames. In
1890, there were 200 factories in London making buttons from local
shellfish. They're not "pearl" in the sense of genuine pearls, but they
certainly were pearl buttons, and very, very popular.
( wrote an article last year on the Pearlies; learned a lot about pearl
buttons in London!)
Deborah
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Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 16:35:06 -1000
From: Danielle Nunn
Subject: H-COST: Re: pearl buttons
I found some documentation for pearl buttons:
...but my open gowne of white sattin layd on with buttons of Pearl...
This is a quote from the French Garden by Peter Erondell published in
England in 1605.
Hope this helps,
Danielle/Gwendoline
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From: "Leta Hendricks"
Subject: Re: H-COST: pearl buttons
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 07:28:46 -1000
Greetings!
I wish to suggest a few reference resources :
Cumming, Valerie.
Gloves
London : Batsford ; [New York, N.Y. : distributed by Drama BookPublishers],
c1982.
Kelso, Margaret F.
A classification of pearl and shell buttons
National Button Society of America, 1971.
Warren, Geoffrey.
Fashion accessories since 1500 London : Unwin Hyman ; New York : Drama Book Publishers,
1987.
Peacock, Primrose.
Antique buttons; their history and how to collect them.
New York, Drake Publishers [1972].
Hughes, Elizabeth.
The big book of buttons
Sedgwick, Me. : New Leaf Publishers, c1991.
Osborne, Peggy Ann.
About buttons : a collector's guide, 150 A.D. to the present
Atglen, PA : Schiffer, c1994.
All books by the late Diana Epstein
Buttons
New York, Walker, 1968
The collector's guide to buttons
New York : Walker, 1990.
Buttons
New York : H.N. Abrams, 1991.
I highly recommend that that you contact:
The National Button Society
Mrs. Jane Leslie, President
5 Paddock Road
Tyngsboro, MA 01879-2419
And the-best-of-the-best:
Buckeye State Button Society
Laura Gene Chisnell, President
400 East Clinton Street
Doylestown, Ohio 44230-1507
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