2007-03-26 03:56:19 · 4 answers · asked by ANNE B 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
If you're looking for vintage buttons, check antique places and estate sales in your area. We've been going out on weekends and I've been seeing TONS of buttons for sale, most of them in bags or glass jars.
Many fabric stores like JoAnns or Hancock fabrics will have racks of buttons to choose from. Sometimes you can find them in craft stores, but you're better off in a fabric store.
Also, if you're looking for really specialized buttons, sometimes your local needlework store will have them.
And of course, there's always ebay.
2007-03-26 04:20:12 · answer #1 · answered by Silver_Stars 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Craft shops selling card making or scrapbooking supplies sell a variety of buttons. Some are called flatbacks for the obvious reason, they have shanks to sew them on but these are generally removed for papercrafts. There is a range made by Craftime with themed packs of buttons such as school, wedding, beach, babies etc. Doodlebug do a range as do American Crafts and many others. Docrafts Papermania supply a large caddy box of assorted buttons.
You could also check out charity shops that sell secondhand clothing. They often remove buttons from items which are only good for recycling and sell them.
Haberdashery shops also sell buttons and there are some very fancy (and expensive) ones available.
If you are American you may mean pin back badges. We don't call them buttons on this side of the Atlantic.
2007-03-26 14:33:52 · answer #2 · answered by felineroche 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is it for scrapbooking/card making?
Shaped buttons?
2007-03-26 11:13:45 · answer #3 · answered by asksso 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you in the uk??
try these..
http://uk.best-price.com/procSystem,showProductSearchByUserSearch,,0,fancy%20buttons.html
or...
http://www.ascuteasabutton.com/?gclid=CO30i_fekosCFQUvlAod6AKzQg
http://www.globalsources.com/manufacturers/Fancy-Button.html
2007-03-26 11:23:23 · answer #4 · answered by Toby G* 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋