I love to find websites that offer jewelry which has been designed in an "out of the ordinary" way. Today's creations make use of antique buttons. According to the site owner, the designs make use of buttons are all at least 50 to 100 years old and some even older.
Some of the designs make use of bakelite and celluloid buttons and of course glass and Victorian metal buttons. The design featured here is a pair of earrings made from hand painted glass buttons. They are so romantic and feminine.
There are even perfume buttons, which I had never heard of. Perfume buttons were made in the mid 1800s, and have a fabric underlay. Women of the period dabbed perfume on the velvet part of the button. During the Civil war, women would often give one of these buttons, with the scent of their perfume, to a husband or lover going off to war. The man would then stitch it under the collor of his uniform as a reminder of the love he left behind.
You can see more of the designs on this page of the vintage button jewelry website.
