National Button Society
​Creating With Buttons Program

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The National Button Society is excited to announce an additional member benefit for 2021! Its new Creating with Buttons Program will feature four quarterly Zoom craft workshops and eight button craft tutorials on Youtube. The first two are available to all button lovers. The rest will be available to NBS members only.   Click on the images to the right to connect to the first two tutorials.

Plans for the craft workshops include artists’ demonstrations on how to make a button bowl, beaded button heart, button bouquet and creative button mountings. The button craft tutorial videos provide directions for making framed button art, jewelry, holiday items and more. Participants will be encouraged to share their creations.

This new resource for enjoying buttons is in response to NBS members’ increased interest in using their non-collectible buttons in artistic ways. The Creating with Buttons Program also includes a dedicated site on the NationalButtonSociety.org website that features button crafting photos and instruction sheets.

“No-Harm” button crafts support the National Button Society’s mission to preserve all that is beautiful and historic in buttons. Membership in the NBS is $35 annually. Visit NationalButtonsSociety.org to join.
—National Button Society Creativity Team
Sylvia Liszka Durell
​February 2021
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FREE! Narrated program on Bone Buttons
Bone buttons were made from animal bones…mainly cattle during the 17th and 18th centuries. New button collectors often first think about underwear buttons when they think of bone buttons. But, there is a lot more to know about bone buttons and you can do that from my three parts on bone buttons on YouTube! Just click the program image to go there and access all three.
Join me at my Button Group Facebook page:
@HernandoCountyButtonCollectorsGroup
This is a very useful video on how to test and tell the difference between Bakelite, celluloid and lucite. youtu.be/3NKG95kyTNg
This YouTube video about button manufacturing is fascinating! Definitely something to share with fellow button enthusiasts!

Websites
NationalButtonSociety
http://hammond-turner.com/
http://www.vintagebuttons.net/
http://bnb.jewelrymakingmagazines.com/search?q=buttons
http://www.cbweiser.com/
www.ohiobuttons.org/EducationalLinks.html
http://www.vintagebuttons.net/index.html
http://www.nicholsbuttons.co.uk/
http://jillionsofbuttons.blogspot.com/
https://armchairauctions.com/
http://www.muscatinehistory.org/whos-got-the-button

Golf-related buttons:
www.golftracer.com/buttons/buttondisplay.html
Resource for China Buttons:
http://www.chinabuttonexchange.com/  
How to sew on a button: http://www.realmenrealstyle.com/sew-button-quick-tips/
http://www.marthastewart.com/915431/making-charm-strings-tender-buttons

Facebook Pages
www.facebook.com/HernandoCountyButtonCollectorsGroup
Florida State Button Society www.facebook.com/Information.Events/
www.facebook.com/NationalButtonSociety
www.facebook.com/BonkersAboutButtons
www.facebook.com/ButtonCentral
www.facebook.com/AddictedtoButtons
www.facebook.com/GrandmothersButtons
www.facebook.com/buttonsgalore
www.facebook.com/funwithbuttons
www.facebook.com/pages/Jillions-of-Buttons
www.facebook.com/buttonimages

I will continue to add more as I discover them...or if you have a suggestion, send me the link through my contact page. Thanks!

Learn how to market your button club to increase membership
Part One: Survey
https://youtu.be/T-yIixN18_E 
Part Two: Ideas
https://youtu.be/i6YMp109yvU