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An exhibit courtesy of the Historical Button Club will be on display in the library lobby
through April 12 when the club will offer a program on the History of Garment Buttons.
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Who’s got the button?
Area libraries do during March and April in partnership with the Historical Button Club of North Idaho and eastern Washington.
March is National Button Month and the club has planned a series of four presentations and three displays.
The displays will be in the Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls and the Hayden Lake libraries and feature antique and collectible sewing buttons through time. The Historical Button Club hopes to find more people in the region who collect buttons and who may want to learn more about their family’s buttons box or family keepsakes or just have an interest in knowing more about collecting buttons.
The first presentations will begin Saturday, April 7, at 11 a.m. at the Hayden Community Library followed by a second presentation at the Post Falls Library at 2 p.m.. On Thursday, April 12, beginning at 6 p.m., the next presentation will be held at the Coeur d’Alene library Community Room. The final presentation will be for the Kootenai County Genealogical Society at the Hayden Library at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17.
The Historical Button Club, founded in 1976, is affiliated with the Idaho State Button Society as well as the National Buttons Society. Members in the club have been collecting for as many as 60 years and some even longer than that.
Collections are sometimes inherited and club members can help explain the value and age of a collection or just a small box of grandmother’s buttons.
Buttons range in age from the 16th century, up to present times. There are children’s buttons, buttons from transportation companies and military uniforms, men’s and women’s waistcoat buttons as well and many 18th century colonial copper and pearl buttons worn primarily on men’s coats.
Buttons can also be identified by their artistic styles, such as Art Nouveau and Art Deco, which can be an indicator of the age of the button. There are paintings on ivory and lithograph images under glass and celluloid. Buttons are basically amazing works of “art in miniature” and that is what attracts most to the hobby of collecting buttons.
Club meetings are held the second Wednesday every month at the Country Ridge Apartments Community Room, Hayden Lake. For more information contact: Kristy Eversole, 208-772-5131 or krisevsole@gmail.com, or Simone Kincaid, 208-755-6585, sckincaid@gmail.com.
Area libraries do during March and April in partnership with the Historical Button Club of North Idaho and eastern Washington.
March is National Button Month and the club has planned a series of four presentations and three displays.
The displays will be in the Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls and the Hayden Lake libraries and feature antique and collectible sewing buttons through time. The Historical Button Club hopes to find more people in the region who collect buttons and who may want to learn more about their family’s buttons box or family keepsakes or just have an interest in knowing more about collecting buttons.
The first presentations will begin Saturday, April 7, at 11 a.m. at the Hayden Community Library followed by a second presentation at the Post Falls Library at 2 p.m.. On Thursday, April 12, beginning at 6 p.m., the next presentation will be held at the Coeur d’Alene library Community Room. The final presentation will be for the Kootenai County Genealogical Society at the Hayden Library at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17.
The Historical Button Club, founded in 1976, is affiliated with the Idaho State Button Society as well as the National Buttons Society. Members in the club have been collecting for as many as 60 years and some even longer than that.
Collections are sometimes inherited and club members can help explain the value and age of a collection or just a small box of grandmother’s buttons.
Buttons range in age from the 16th century, up to present times. There are children’s buttons, buttons from transportation companies and military uniforms, men’s and women’s waistcoat buttons as well and many 18th century colonial copper and pearl buttons worn primarily on men’s coats.
Buttons can also be identified by their artistic styles, such as Art Nouveau and Art Deco, which can be an indicator of the age of the button. There are paintings on ivory and lithograph images under glass and celluloid. Buttons are basically amazing works of “art in miniature” and that is what attracts most to the hobby of collecting buttons.
Club meetings are held the second Wednesday every month at the Country Ridge Apartments Community Room, Hayden Lake. For more information contact: Kristy Eversole, 208-772-5131 or krisevsole@gmail.com, or Simone Kincaid, 208-755-6585, sckincaid@gmail.com.
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