FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Three Rivers Festival makes a new button every year. The pin can get you discounts on some tickets around the festival, but, for some, they mean a lot more. Over the ...

Button collecting is more than just putting them in your mom’s button box as they fall off your clothing. And to prove it, the Saguaro Button Club of the East Valley will be hosting the annual Arizona ...

"Button Button, who's got the button?" Today, it's the collector. The hobby is widespread among artisans, fashion designers, crafts people and especially antique button buffs. Button collecting first ...

Little has changed about the humble button since it first began being used functionally in the 13th century. From the Mongol invasion of Europe to last week’s annual Oregon Brewers Festival, buttons ...

"If you come stay with me, you get to sleep with my buttons," Boldt joked as she showed a visitor the way to her guest bedroom. On one wall, from floor to ceiling, collections of buttons are attached ...

They're not just buttons. They're petite capsules of history, art, culture and craftsmanship, as well as purely delightful — simultaneously functional — decoration. And they're coming to Erie County.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Peggy Mathes still has the first button she ever collected a trapezoid-shaped piece made of bakelite, trimmed with a row of rhinestones. "It was in 1988," Mathes said. "I was in an ...

Syliva Whiten’s husband, Bob Whiten, has his own, small collection of buttons from his firefighter parade coat. He has served with the Charleroi Fire Department for 60 years. Sylvia Whiten keeps her ...

NORMAL — Why did Kelly Provost drive over 10 hours early Friday morning to the opening of the Illinois State Button Society’s annual show in Normal? To see some of her button-collecting friends, she ...

Over the last months I have been sharing some of this years hot collectibles. Vintage buttons are a great collectible and are some of my favorite things to collect. Buttons can be found in a variety ...

I’ll bet at first glance of the title of this month’s column some of you are thinking about buttons and bows as in useful items for garment making and adornment. Perhaps others are thinking of the ...