Buttons Get Their Due

I was delighted to see Country Woman’s cover photo featuring button crafts on the February/March issue. When I opened to the article and saw the selection of five button crafts, I was over the moon! I hope your fun article will entice your readers to learn more about collecting buttons by joining the National Button Society (NBS).

history A main of mission vintage buttons. of NBS is Consequently, to preserve the we beauty encourage and button crafters to use noncollectible or craft buttons in their creations or to use a “no-harm” method to attach vintage buttons to their projects. Thank you again for featuring button crafts! SYLVIA LISZKA DURELL NATIONAL BUTTON SOCIETY

EDITOR’S NOTE: versions of the button So many crafts of in you the made February/March your own issue, and we’ve been loving the pictures you’ve sent. We’re grateful to Sylvia for writing with her crafting tips aimed at preserving the collectible ones. “We are a passionate lot,” Sylvia says of button collectors. “We really do think buttons are little works of art to be treasured.” We agree.