Join the New Jersey State Button Society in celebrating National Button Day.
Artists, historians, fashionistas – you’re invited to enroll in “Buttons 101: Every Button Has a
Story,” a hands-on workshop at Princeton Adult School on Tuesday, November 10 from 6 to 8pm.
Whether you are fascinated with their artistic quality, or eager to examine their construction, or seek to delve into their history, you will receive vintage and antique buttons to make a “button sampler.” Taught by NJSBS members Barbara Figge Fox and Susan Freeman, the workshop takes place at Princeton High School, 151 Moore Street, Princeton. The cost is $40. For information, email info@PrincetonAdultSchool or call 609-683-1101
Celebrate National Button Day on Monday, November 16 with an exhibit or a club meeting!
- Button art will be shown in the gallery at Stonebridge at Montgomery, 100 Hollinshead Spring
Road in Skillman, on November 16 from 2 to 4 p.m. or by appointment. - That evening, the Mercer County Buttoniers will meet at the Lawrence Library, 2750 Brunswick Pike in Lawrence, from 7 to 8 p.m.
- The Jersey Shore Button Club will meet on Wednesday, November 18 at 1 p.m. at the Ocean County Library, 30 Station Road, Bayville.
- The Central Jersey Buttoniers meets Thursday, November 19 at 10:15 a.m. at the Somerset County library, 1 Vogt Drive, Bridgewater.
- Online resources include NewJerseyStateButtonSociety.com, WorldButtonAssociation.org, and the National Button Society’s Fall Fest weekend of virtual classes from November 13 to 15, free to those who register at buttonu@Nationalbuttonsociety.org.
Welcome to the world of buttons!
Every home seems to have a button jar – a container where miscellaneous buttons have been tossed over the years “just in case”. These jars of buttons contain treasures!
Buttons are made from plastic, glass, metal, vegetables, shells – you name it! They are decorative and utilitarian – they convey a story and are a snap shot of a period of history.
Are you interested in antiques, history, sewing, unconventional art or quilting?Are you curious about history and fashion?
Or do you just like the tiny objects that are “the world’s smallest antiques?”
A warm welcome to our two new members Pat D. and Sabrina O. Pat and Sabrina joined the NJSBS following our fall show. Pat is particularly interested in paperweight and Victorian buttons and Sabrina looks out for enamel and Bakelite buttons and button art!
