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 ...

"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 ...

EUGENE, Ore. — A rich hoard of family history might be hidden in Mason jars and cookie tins that are full of buttons. They might include buttons from wedding gowns, uniforms or the dress a child wore ...

Anyone who’s ever had any type of buttons – perhaps from a piece of clothing, your Grandmother’s button box or something you’ve found at a sale or antique shop or even a family heirloom – knows how ...

The story of the world can be told in discs smaller than a Ritz cracker. Buttons, as members of the Gulfbreeze Button Club, will explain, are chunks of history so close to us, so common in our lives, ...

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 ...

Chances are, whether you’re a crafter or not, you have a jar or old tin filled with a mishmash of buttons you’ve collected during the years in case you need to replace one, or two, missing on your ...

Today, buttons are glorified doorstops. Like bureaucrats or congressmen, they act as dull place-keepers on the fabric of society — until their thread snaps and they vanish into the carpet. But members ...

! We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at dchval@juno.com or call Voices editor Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. While many of us have memories of sorting through our ...

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) At some time in their lives, nearly every child has emptied out mother s button box, searching through the collection for a unique color or shape, finding a hidden treasure in a ...

The button that started Carl Fisher's collection of thousands was a gift. Nearly 20 years ago, Fisher's aunt gave him a simple red button with the name "MORSE" in white lettering. It dated from 1972, ...