The 2023 Florida State Button Society Meeting & Show has been announced! Stay tuned for more information.

Button Craft Tutorials

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The National Button Society YouTube channel features button craft tutorials as well as, the button craft videos that were part of the NBS virtual meeting in August 2021. The 14 button craft videos have been viewed more than 3,500 times. We invite you to become a subscriber so you don’t miss any of the new tutorials! Go to the National Button Society Button Creativity  channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/NationalButtonSocietyButtonCreativity.

The NBS series of button craft tutorials were created in response to its members’ increased interest in using their non-collectible buttons in artistic ways. This series of button crafts and the other button craft ideas on the NBS website support its mission to preserve all that is beautiful and historic in buttons. You can see more about what membership offers you online at NationalButtonSociety.org. For more, including craft worksheets, go to  “Resources” at NationalButtonSociety.org.
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NEW! Button & Zipper Bracelet Tutorial
 youtu.be/kb6jllvWijg
Haiku for Button Lovers
Poetry Book
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I LOVE BUTTONS!
For me, buttons are miniature works of art. Examining their designs, colors and materials gives me great pleasure.
Haiku for Button Lovers is full of “insider information” -- the details about buttons. The more you know about buttons, the more you will enjoy the poetry. It's short and sweet and is written with a clever turn of phrase.

The 76 Haiku poems are under these categories:
  • About Buttons, Ceramic, Fabric, Glass, Metal, Plastic, 
    Rubber, Shell, Vegetable Ivory/Ivory, Wood
The last  is a longer poem, which describes the physical feelings a button collector experiences when getting a new jar of buttons.

I hope reading my Haiku for Button Lovers will delight button collectors and intrigue others to learn more about buttons and button collecting.

Haiku for Button Lovers can be found in Kindle format on Amazon: www.amazon.com/-/e/B07GDNQJF5  You can also read it on your smartphone, tablet or computer by using one of the apps Amazon offers.

​You can contact Sylvia Liszka Durell
​via this website contact page or at holeybuttons@gmail.com.
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Successful NBS Show!

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2022 CONVENTION
PHOTO ALBUM
 
Kent Sweitzer, a professional photographer, took great photos at the convention this year and has them on his website for you to enjoy. If they are used in any form, credit Kent as the photographer. Click the tents below to see the photos:

History of Buttons: Why We Collect the Little Works of Art

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Click the photo to be taken to the ordering page for your copy of this program.
​Come with me on a visit to the Frieda Warther Button House in Dover, OH! 
(Click image to go to YouTube.)