We made our trip to the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center to see the fashion and button display. It’s in a beautiful old house! The buttons displayed are fabulous. The buttons are part of a very large collection housed at OSU: https://costume.osu.edu/.../ann-rudolph-button-collection/
 I stopped in an antique store today to look for buttons. I found hundreds of beautiful, collectible buttons. I was so disappointed when I realized that many of these hundreds of buttons were glued on clips and hairpins. I could see that the shanks had been removed on many. Sigh…I would have loved to have bought them in their original form.    Running concurrently with Flower Power at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center is Botany in Buttons. The exhibition features hundreds of items from the Ann W. Rudolph Button Collection, a comprehensive collection of historic buttons and related artifacts within the Ohio State University Historic Costumes and Textiles Collection. Visitors can enjoy the floral designs of hundreds of buttons made of glass, metal, ceramic, bamboo, vegetable ivory (tagua nut), and other media. Also included are ceramic buttons made in Satsuma, Japan, a city known for its fine ceramics, and some with Royal Copenhagen and Crown Staffordshire maker’s marks.
301 West Main Street, Troy, Ohio 45373 937-339-0457 3301 West Main Street, Troy, Ohio 45373 937-339-045701 West Main Street, Troy, Ohio 45373 937-339-0457 Here is the finished piece. I mounted the frog on a bottle cap to make him look more like he is jumping.  |
Sylvia Liszka Durell, AuthorOwner of HoleyButtons.com and a founding member of the Hernando County Button Collectors Group in Florida. Archives
June 2024
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