What are buttons

Buttons are small shaped balls or pieces that are set into a button loop to fasten clothes and so on.

The development of buttons

In our country, the origin of the buttons can be traced back as early as 1800 years ago, the initial buttons are mainly stone buttons, wooden buttons, shell buttons, and later developed to the fabric made of tape buttons, knot buttons. Plate knot buttons have played a great role in the development of our clothing history, from the initial clothing functional fasteners to clothing decoration transition.

Chinese plate buttons is the traditional form of clothing buttons, is sewn with a variety of fabrics into thin strips, coiled into a variety of shapes of fancy buttons. Chinese plate buckle beautiful shape, exquisite workmanship, like a thousand crafts, can be said to be China's clothing in the garden of the unique oddball. Chinese plate deduction has the same value of use with other buttons, more often used to decorate and beautify the clothing, especially in ethnic clothing, more reflect the beauty of its clothing.

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History of Buttons

The use of buttons has a history of more than six thousand years. As early as four thousand years ago, the Persians, the ancestors of Iran, made buttons out of stone for use. Ancient Egyptian 6th dynasty, the tycoons used gold and silver to make buttons, adorned in the clothes around the collar ring as a decoration. Although the buttons were made, they had little utility, just good looks. Later, women who liked to wear dresses no longer used fabric and other made of rings will be buttoned, they found that as long as the dress cut a mouth can be buttoned up, much more convenient, but also very practical.

China's Zhou Dynasty had already begun to adopt the system of upper garment and lower garment, and both men and women wore two pieces of clothing, one on top and the other on the bottom. There were officials in the dynasty who specialized in making dresses, and when civil and military officials did great ceremonies, they had to wear dresses. At that time, the use of clothing was relatively standardized, and the clothing system was quite complete. The Zhou Dynasty reflects the Zhou Dynasty rituals, "Zhou Li", "Records of Rites" and other books appeared in the word "New", "New" is the interlocking knot, that is, the button knot. According to my collection of the Western Zhou bronze yinwen buttons and our archaeological findings, in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, there is the use of buttons. In the Warring States relics unearthed in Shizhai Mountain, Jinning, Yunnan, buttons of round, oval, animal head and irregular shapes have been made of blue, apple green and light gray turquoise. Each one has one or two small holes. Some are engraved with patterns, chic and colorful, with a wonderful wax luster. Collection of buttons collection, there are still simple buttons made of small stones, shell fragments, animal horns and walnuts, coconut shells. This shows that our Chinese people already used buttons during the Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

The drawings shown on a Haniwa made of human figures in the middle of the Kofun period unearthed in Japan show that men's clothing consisted of a coat and a skirt, and that the coat was a narrow-sleeved blouse with buttons connecting the buttons on the front chest. This shows that buttons were used by the Japanese before the Kofun period.

In the sixteenth century, the Chinese brought buttons to Europe, when only men used them, fewer women used them, and most people just used them for clothing. In order to show their wealth, some dignitaries used precious materials such as gold, silver, pearls, gems, diamonds, rhinoceros horn, antelope horn and ivory to make buttons. There is a record of King Louis XIV of France, who used 13,000 precious buttons to make a king's robe. My collection, there are precious horn, antelope horn, ivory, gold and silver precious materials made of precious buttons.