Day 17 : Candy Stripe
This button is another testing out new shapes and inspired by a small picture that my Grandmother made to be placed over my cradle. It is thread wrapped too - in red - and I have often wondered if my fascination for thread wrapping came from this. I used to try to figure out how the pattern was made when I was little. Of course, as soon as I learnt about button wrapping, I figured it out.
A couple years ago I saw the pattern for the basic frame and instructions for wrapping it in an old book, if I recall from the 1920/30s. I have often wondered if she had access to that, or if it was something that she learnt elsewhere.
I used cotton perle No 12 for this.
Size: 27mm / just over 1" / 42L
We never ask the questions, when we're little, that we want the answers to as we get older, do we!
ReplyDeleteI love the stories that go with some of your buttons. I also love that buttons can be such small tokens with such rich personal or social histories entwined in them.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
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