The History Of And Making Of A Victorian Button String With Mudlarked Buttons
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- We have been sorting our finds and we decided to put together a Victorian button string with some of the buttons we have found while mudlarking. We go into the history of the strings and show you some buttons from my own button collection.
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What better gift can you give, than the gift of calm? Another lovely, slow-time masterpiece from Fleur and Kate ❤️🇨🇦❤️
I loved seeing all your beautiful buttons!!! Im 60 now but when i was a kid my mom would go to thrift stores you call charity shops and i remember some of the older ladies sitting and cutting buttons off the old clothing that was going to be thrown away ..my dads mom was a seamstress she worked altering clothing for people at the popular american store called J.C.Penney i remember going to her house and looking at the beautiful buttons she had...thanks for the lovely memory.
I always think of the days my girls and I spent together while watching your videos. It's bittersweet but always more sweet than anything else🥰🤩 How wonderful is each glimpse into your time together! Thank you for sharing them with us!
My grandmother was born in 1918, in the 1930 through WW2 when clothing wore out all the buttons and embellishments were removed. Then were added to other clothing or housewares. When she passed on the so many jars of buttons divided by color, at least 12 big jars. I love pouring in a bowl and just running my hands through them, very relaxing and therapeutic.
I agree it is very therapeutic! :)
My grandmother always kept a big tin of buttons at her home and when I would visit I always made button strings. We never threw away anything that had buttons until they were removed. I always loved them. Of course we had to leave our button strings at grandma's house so we would look forward to the entertainment with buttons we knew that would always come. To this day I have a love of buttons and would give the world to have that tin of buttons.
This video brought back wonderful memories of my Grandmother's button strings. I think hers were just to keep the buttons together so they would not get lost. I had completely forgotten about those button strings, until now. I have a bunch of old buttons that belonged to my Mother and Grandmother and this is a wonderful way to keep them. Thank you so much for your wonderful and inspiring videos!
I did not know this tradition at all, but this makes so much sense, I have a mountain of old old old buttons in a box and I remember my grandmother’s box of buttons and there was so many they belonged to her mother too. Each one so very different. Thank you so much for sharing
So manny of those buttons were faliliar from my childhood. Looking thru my moms & grammas button jar. So beautiful. Thanl u again for ur faithfulness & creativity
Great way to save moments from your life to remember when you're old, could start a trend
You lovely ladies are so entertaining in a calm and gentle way so nice to watch when we’re in lockdown and feeling well fed up . Thank you x
Thank you so much!
Dear Fleur and Kate,
Thank you for the historic stories.
I love to hear one. When i was a little Girl, i play with a Knopfkette (Buttonstring)
Lg Jette
Really loved this video, never knew about button strings and the beautiful ones Fleur collected are just gorgeous, I think Kate that little green one is my favourite aswell, take care xx
I really enjoyed this video. My mum has a button tin and I not looked in it for years. I spent many hours as a child going through all the buttons. I can’t wait to see it again now we have become mudlarks as the buttons were collected by 3 generations of women and there’s going to be treasures in there for sure.
Glad you finally got your sticker - we sent it about 3 weeks ago but know that some areas are suffering with Royal Mail deliveries. Thanks for the shout out xx 🙏
I love your buttons I used to sit and look through my grandmothers button box when I was a child it is a wonderful memory thank you for bringing it back to me.
Beautiful button strings! I didn't know that history about the button strings, very interesting! My mom was a child during the great depression, they saved everything. Literally Everything salvageable was recycled. My mother had a floral tin she put buttons in. That tin was a joy for me as a child sitting on the floor sorting and stringing while she sewed. That tin is mine now and there are still a few of the buttons I remember from my childhood! Such fun memories you stirred with your string project! Thank you Ladies! Love from Michigan, USA 🐦💜🇺🇸
There is something that stirs happy memories in a button string :)
What a fantastic idea for a button collector. I have seen bracelets made from buttons. Stay warm and safe and hug Sunny cat for me. 🥰🥰🥰
I just adore you guys!! There is such a peaceful joy in every one of your videos. Stay safe & well. 😊🥰
Thank you so much!
Hello from snowy Ohio. I also, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE buttons. I have a box from my mother and my grandmother. Lovely buttons. What fun. Thanks for the history.
here in America, we also have button strings. Young ladies got a starter button from their mother. And as she celebrated her birthday a new button was added. This started at an age of 6 or so. Many button companies made collector buttons just for the strings. I have most of my grandmothers and mothers strings of buttons. I just strung them a year ago. And even at the age of 64 I still collect the prettiest buttons I can find. I still have the 2 large 1 gallon jars of various buttons cut off of clothes that were too far gone to be clothes, but were made into quilts. So I have the buttons and the quilt, from 1800. Still fun to this day to find a fancy.
I have collected buttons since I was a young girl. Over 50 years. I chose all my glass and rhinestone buttons and added a stem to each and out all my flower buttons in a beautiful blue glass vase. It is one of my most cherished possessions. I also have a wreath that is solid mother of pearl buttons and lace. It is beautiful. Have fun playing with your buttons. Love, Barb
Thank you so much for this Kate and Fleur, this was wonderful. It brought tears to my eyes, for the memories that came flooding back of sitting in my grandma's house, on her tiny little couch, and getting to play with her button string. She always kept it in the drawer of her treadle sewing machine and it was something she always cherished. When she passed away I don't know what became of it?! I too collect buttons, having been a seamstress and tailor for many years before I retired. This inspires me to gather together all of my buttons and see if I can make up a string to someday give to my granddaughter. Thank you once again for sharing such a nice history on button strings, even if it was sometimes sad. The "Little House On The Prairie", books were some of my favorites, and my daughter also loved them and made a habit of reading through the series every summer when out of school. She has passed on her love of them to her own daughter, and so a family tradition was born. This was so much fun, and since it has been rainy and cold here now for weeks, what better way to wile away an hour or more in the pleasant task of sorting buttons?! May you have a lovely day!!!
Cool. I never knew it was a thing.
It reminds me of a Malcolm In The Middle episode where Bea Arthur played babysitter to Malcolm's little brother Dewey. They sorted the babysitter's button collection. They bonded after realizing that they shared the same liked and disliked buttons.
Hello from the USA I enjoy this craft video. I try to save my kids buttons
Reminds me that as a child I would make a button string when my mom sewed. I still have some of those same buttons still---- from the 1950's.
How absolutely fascinating. I'd never heard of bead strings before. I have some beautiful old buttons from my Mother's button box. So lovely that each has its very own story. A friend always cut off the buttons from old clothes and remembers where each one comes from ao plenty of precious memories. Nothing quite like putting your hand in a biutton box for a wee rummage. I can sit for hours looking through a box of buttons to find those extra special ones in charity shops.
I have a button collection too. Some were my great grandmother's and now I am a great grandmother. I hope someone in the family will appreciate the history behind them. Your videos are very soothing to watch.
Lovely! I make bracelets, earrings and hair clips out of vintage buttons. I used to sit for hours looking through my Nana's button tin when I was a child. It was an old 50s Quality Street Tin. My grandfather bought it when sweet rationing stopped in the early 50s.
Great idea. I have my Mother’s buttons. When I was small it was great fun playing with her buttons
How beautiful! I'm inspired to find a jar of buttons I got from my husband's grandmother years ago. Just a bunch she had collected over the years! The jar is stored away safely. I really enjoyed this! Thank you🌺🦋💜
How nice was that, thanks for sending the buttons, so we could enjoy them, and, I did enjoy them, they are outstanding
I'm sorry I thought someone sent you the buttons, it was your collection, how nice, so again thank you for sharing them, they are sooooo beautiful!!!!!
Thank you, that was lovely!
I love history so much and I love learning something new. This video was great! Thanks ladies 😊
Those buttons a so beautiful.
The last chain reminds me of those sweet necklaces / candy necklaces.
Love the button string, like you have a bead string you can know have a button one, it’s going to be great watching them grow together. God bless and stay safe and well 🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰🥰👏👏👏👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Fascinating history of the button string. I always loved the buttons tins the women in my family had, spent many happy hours as a child playing in my mothers button box and making button strings.
Ladies, Your tribute to the Victorian Button String put a smile on my face, : ) I've always held a sense of wonderment for buttons, wondering about the who, what. where and for how long this small, tactile, very personal and important piece of history, was used. Thank you for another lovely video, Kit/Fleur, Kate and any Caboodlers, including Sunny Cat.. : )
What wonderful story tellers you both are. And the buttons are beautiful!
What a beautiful way to display your buttons !
Awesome video I absolutely Love hearing about the history of the button strings we have always loved and collected buttons here thanks for sharing your wonderful collection with us it’s quite beautiful 👍🏻💕
Delightful!! Thank you!..from a button collector in AZ USA
Thankyou for such a wonderful video. I had no idea about Victorian button strings. It was fascinating! I do remember the two hole button strings as play things. I’m 54 and we made them in primary 3!! I loved playing with mine. The texture and colour of all the buttons. I also remember babies having them ( a definite health and safety risk!) great video. Stay well
Those buttons are gorgeous! I didn't know about Bead strings, but there is always a great K&C history lesson!
Thankyou! It's been a while, however, the button string I now remember learning from victorian history at school about the young girls and their fascination with buttons. There was quite a lot of competition between the girls over these button strings lol! Thankyou for reminding me..
I'm looking forward to both of your button strings growing. Also, a great idea to superglue jewellery rings onto the backs of the old buttons.
I remember my grans old sewing basket. She always stored her buttons on strings. She said her Mum taught her to do it. When I think about it, my Great Grandmother would have been a young girl during Victoria's reign for this button craze.
My Grandmother's sisters had the same thing in their sewing baskets. Even in the 60s, my Mother kept hers neat and tidy on a string, she used a loop so she could slide off any buttons she needed to use or add to the string. I have my buttons in a glass jar. As I use snaps for my doll clothes. It's ages since I used a button lol!. Stay safe. XX
That is so interesting! It is odd how the history of things gets lost! We use loads of buttons haha :)
That was beautiful calming as well. I’ve never heard that story. So interesting. Thanku. 🙏🤔🙋♀️
classic case of watching to much button moon with mr spoon its only cure is a spot of mudlarking in the garden with mr sunnycat stay safe crazy crew :-)
I have like four huge jars of buttons. I’m
going to make a button string! I luv buttons too! Thank you for the history on them. Buttons are unique and beautiful! ❤️
We would love to see it made :)
Thank you for the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder! I read every book and as a college student, bought every book in hard-cover. In adulthood, I have added books 📚 about the "Little House" family and have several. I even met the actress who played Nellie Olsen, (Allison Arngrim) at a professional conference where she was the keynote speaker! A lovely woman whom I was lucky enough to have a great conversation with!
Your historical story telling is wonderful. Laura Ingalls Wilder books have always been my favorites. Living in the west of theU.S., when I was a child, I wanted to be Laura. The buttons you have Fleur are simply gorgeous. Great video.
I love Little House on the Prairie :)
I have a divided shadowbox full of buttons from my grandmother sitting in front of me know. Love buttons.
I remember sitting with my Mum when I was a little girl back in the 1970s and making button strings and necklaces with her from all of the buttons that she had in her tin (everyone’s Mum had a tin didn’t they). I think some of them were my Grandma’s buttons and the were so beautiful! Very happy memories of a much nicer time.
Your button collection is awesome! Those ones at the end that ere Kates favourites would look amazing sewn onto little handmade, sewn Christmas baubles ❤️
Love this story , love the video. Great job, thank you... Oh My goodness wouldn't the double threaded buttons make gorgeous earrings Kat!! Fleur's button collection look like jewery pieces , or should be . What a beautiful bracelet your favorite,Kat, buttons would be.
This was fun! I made a button string once when we used to have a lot of tea parties and I loved anything from the Victorian era. Watching you makes me want to make one again. Thanks.
I love buttons! Thank you for sharing!
Like a lot of others here, very fond memories of my great grandmother's button jar, loved looking at all the variety and shapes
Ah the Little House on the Prairie. My brother and I loved that. We used to call it The Little Mouse on the Fairy. That was a fantastic video. Thanks.
Little House on the Prairie was one of my favourite books too when I was growing up :)
That was so intriguing! Never heard of button strings, and what amazing treasured things they must have been. Thanks so much for sharing :) Always happier finding beads than buttons at the beach, but I think I found a new appreciation for buttons!!
We use buttons a lot in makes so we always pick them up :)
Button collecting has an interesting history with women stringing them. I remember both my maternal grandmother and my mom having button tins and there were always tons of them. When one of my 6 siblings would lose a button, mom would go through the button box (tin) till she found the appropriate one! Sweet memory of mine!
Thank you for the moment of peace and calm. Your video reminded me of my great grandma who worked for Wendy Wools and had a vast selection of buttons in different cake tins. Take care 😄
Thank you :) x
Magical and beautiful ; lovely button collection and natty teashirt/ jersey Fleur ; I think a huge compilation of mudlarkers getting their freedom and doing happy dances nationwide is in order when the nightmare is over . My husband the blues singer dude wrote a song called Not The Little House On The Prairie . Anyways enjoy being home and warm and looking through and sorting all your wonderful finds . I loved the buttonstring stories and its just magic .
Thank you so much, we will definitely doing a big happy dance when this is over! :)
Such a wonderful gift! Love the cartoon picture!❤🥰❤
Thanks for another sweet video......Stay well, until next time
My mother had a button tin and when I was a child I like to look at all the pretty buttons in it. Now over the years I have accumulated several popcorn tins of old buttons, and I do use them on doll clothes . I still like the pretty ones. they look like jewelry.
We use a lot of buttons on our makes too :)
I have been collecting buttons for years. I heard a story about a grandma who gave her granddaughter her "favorite" button as the grandma was ill and expected to pass soon. The young girl treasured that special button. They took a family photo that day, years later the young girl, now a women saw the photograph and realized that every child in the photo had a hand closed tightly.❤️ Thank you so much for story! It just added to my love of buttons. I now have a large collection that include a piece of several people I loved, including my own grandma's. Thank you so much for sharing!
That is so lovely :)
I never thought of making a button string but I will now after watching this. I have loved buttons since the 1960's when I used to go across the street to my friend's house and we would sort through her Mom's button tin. We would spend hours on the living room carpet sorting them into pretty piles, we did it often. In the 1984 my Sister-in-Law gave me her Grandmother's button tin (an old round fruit cake tin) filled to the brim with all kinds of buttons including tiny dice and garter fittings. I also have my Grandmother's tin. Over the years I used some of the vintage buttons on my cross stitched pieces. I am going to bring them out this week and sort through them to make a button string like yours hoping embroidery floss will do well as a string.
We would love to see the button string you make :)
Awesome video. I collect buttons too. Now Im going to go thru my collection that also includes a bunch from my Mom. When we wore out clothes that could no longer be repurposed except for rags she always cut off the buttons. She also first taught me to sew doing a backstitch which she said was how she used to make her clothes before they could afford a treddle. Truly lived this video. Ty for sharing. This video brought back a beautiful memory of my Mom. Im sharing with my FB family & friends.
Thank you so much :)
I had never heard of the button strings, so I received some new history for me. I knew that buttons were precious back in the time, and were scarce for those who could not afford small luxuries, so saved. You have a beautiful collection, with some little beauties in it. I have a button jar, but nothing of interest, I save for future sewing projects, just for the shape or color. Loved the video, you always keep me interested. Good luck in your ventures, and health.
I have lovely button brackets my distressed for me from my button collection. I remember my grand mothers button jar. It was a favorite rainy day play thing when I was very young.
Love the story . Sometimes a sad story could be so beautiful.
Hi thanks for sharing this amazing video I never realised how much fascinating history there is to a simple thing like a button I will never look at buttons quite the same again 😁😘
Thank you for sharing the story of button strings. Regarding the song quoted: In the United States, tragic song subjects were very popular at the end of the 19th century. Many children and mothers dying, celebrated by tenors. in the early 20th century there were still mother love songs - right through to Al Jolson singing 'Mammy' - and 'Irish' songs like 'Did Your Mother Come From Ireland' and 'Mother Machree' in 1940.
Then again, there were the tragic 'young lover dies in a car crash' songs of the early 1960s. People haven't changed, I guess.
That was absolutely fascinating! I had never heard of button strings before. We used to keep buttons from thrown away clothes to use as spares because we were always losing them but they were kept in an old jar. I am so pleased we finally got to see some of your button collection Fleur and they are stunning! Those glove buttons are really works of art. Great video Ladies, thank you x
Thank you so much Amanda, I have more buttons somewhere haha :)
A fascinating history. I love things like this and the stories behind them. Great topic for a craft video. Thanks for sharing. To think I was in Connecticut about 20 years ago and went go Hartford and that museum but didn't see the Strings. Interesting. I had totally forgotten the passages from Little House on the Prairie. Now that you mention it, I can in detail. I love those books. They were my favorites for a very long time. I read biographies and autobiographies about Laura Ingles Wilder. My name is Laura Elizabeth just like her. People would call me Laura Ingles in primary school (tv show started here in US when I was in year 1 or first grade as we say here). Well. again you have made a great video, ladies. Cheers from North Carolina, USA. 👍
The books were also my favourite growing up, I read them to all my children :)
How strange, I watched a documentary on Laura Ingalls Wilder just last night. I absolutely loved this video. I adore the simplicity of the victorian button string and your connection to the Little House Books. Thanks as always for sharing!
I have seen trees made out of buttons xx lovely as usual
There is a girl who has a shop in Ryde on the Isle of Wight (where I reside) and she makes the most beautiful wedding bouquets from large decorative buttons and brooches, she even makes the 'buttonholes' for the groom and guests lapels. Seeing you string the shank buttons reminded me of stringing together hag stones, as a child, they would be hung around the outside of my aunts vardo (family on my father's side are Roma) as they were believed to contain magical powers...they needed re-doing yearly as the string would rot and it was considered unlucky if the string broke and the stones fell. Loved the stories of the button stringing. :)
Love this video. I always loved buttons, my mother was a sewer and she had a big tin of buttons I loved to go through, I have them now❤️ never heard of button strings, you have some beautiful ones 🤗
Great video! Thankyou!😀
Thank you for teaching me about the history of bead strings. I never knew. Perhaps I will make some from buttons I have collected along with inherited ones.
So glad you liked the cartoon.
We love it thank you so much!!! x :)
Oh wow thank you Ladies for a wonderful trip down memory lane! When I was a child I would spend hours looking through my Grandmother's button tin. Thank you so much.🤔I wonder what happened to that tin🤔😏😉👋
This video really struck home for me! I have what some might call a button hoard! I have made button dolls with them for gifts. I use a very small gauge wire so they can be put in different poses. The head is a large wooden bead with a fancy button for a hat. The hands and feet are small pearl buttons. Again great video! Thanks for the history!! I find great joy in watching y’all’s videos!!
Hi Ladies, well now I live in Connecticut, a stone throw from Hartford, and I never heard about button strings. I love the stories of history about the button stings. Great collection of buttons you shared with us. Great video. I really enjoyed it. Thank you, Joyce. ARROW *🎱. ❤️
I can make one! Love this so much, the background stories are always the best you guys!
That cartoon was so funny, and about as sweet as could be.
I never new about button strings what a nice little history lesson 😊 more of sunny cat please I bet he would love them as toys though 😆
When I was really young my mom showed me how to make pendulums with buttons. Kept me out of her hair for hours lol.
Thank you, I really enjoyed that. You've inspired me to get out my old button collection and make a button string with them. :-D
Love buttons! Thank you!
I loved this video. I have a soft spot fo buttons and have several tons and jars full. I don't think any are older than the early 1930s but I really like looking at them and yes just feeling them. You gals are great!
Just looked up the raspberry print and found out it's spelled prunt. Interesting. We learn new things every day.
Those one buttons would make great necklaces.
I separated all my buttons into 2 groups, plastic and all others. I used the wonderful non plastic ones to make flowers for a beautiful blue glass vase. I used floral wire on each button. It's none of my favorite things. It has buttons from my mom's collection...which makes it even more special. I truly enjoyed your video and all the information. You too are cute as a button. Love, Barb in Oklahoma
What a Awesome video! I have a lot of buttons that I have been given and purchased from Thrift Stores (Charity Shops). I never knew about button strings and the history behind them. Now I will start creating my own button strings. Thank you so much.
My mom used to keep all her buttons in film reel containers. Some were strung together and I loved to slide them on wrists. I loved to sort and play with them.
Some of those gloves buttons would make beautiful jewelry. Like rings, brooches, necklaces, bracelets. You should invest in some jewelry supplies and try it. It would make a great video. Ala "Northern Mudlarks"! Tony.
I adore all of your you tube films they are totally brilliant thanks for taking the time to do them xxx debbie xxx
What an interesting story and an amazing concept! 🦋
Cool - who doesn't love buttons?💕
Thanks, lovely history. I have a great button collection didn't know about the button strings. Think I might make one with the buttons I love the most. Allot of them I've inherited from my grans collection. Thanks again.
I have a great aunt and great grandmother that used to work punching out shell buttons, and we have these lovely little sachets full of some of the buttons they made! I also have the family button collection- lots of individual collections brought together into one big collection!
That sounds amazing! :)