A brief history of buttons

​Then a button - round objects, but with countless changes - quietly perfect. A handful of, let them like the waterfall is rolled along the fingers, a sense of weight, like coins or candy; their crackling fall riotous with colour flashed, very quiet. Between the buttons crowded hold very much confusion about the origin of the time and place of information. Children learn to fasten buttons, buttons, and repeat until the end of life.

Today's buttons may seem unremarkable, but they will undoubtedly have a vivid side. Button smoothly sew clothes throughout their history also tells the story of clothes became fit. The button shows off its wealth, and its increasingly sophisticated mass production brings a lot of money. It is easy to say that a button is a symbol of a closet, a symbol of sex, a money that is directly worn on the body. How did that button evolve?

Ian McNair (Ian McNeil) in the History Encyclopedia of science and Technology (An Encyclopedia of the of Technology) wrote that the first button is known as the original is more as an ornament, rather than a fastener. The first button was found by Mohen Daro (Mohenjo-daro) in the India Valley (Indus Valley, now in Pakistan). It is made of round shells and has a history of about 5000 years." An early button like this often includes a decorative surface with a ring in it. (reinforced by the middle of thirteenth Century was invented. During this period, the buttons almost never appear in the form of a straight line, but as a decoration for the individual.

Ancient Rome period, buttons and brooches, clasps, pins, are loose clothing on the decorative fasteners. However, these are not easy to use. The pin poked a hole in the precious material. To be at one point on a few yards of cloth, with bones, horns, bronze or wood for load-bearing buttons. Some design took the actual stress of buttons, they will be anchored to the junction of the cloth, and then nail a pure decoration on the top button.

By the way, there are different buttons. Rome in Mycenae invented the fibula, but this was the predecessor of our modern safety pin. The design of Mycenae with the civilization of annihilation and disappear, until the middle of nineteenth Century appeared again in the United states. )

In the middle ages, the buttons were among the rich. "Around the middle of Eleventh Century," the "clothing history" (A History of Costume) author Karl Khloe (Carl K? Hler) wrote, "started doing clothes fit like a glove like fit a hand fit people from shoulder to hip line." Buttons help clothing fit the body, but this does not mean that the material can be cut more provinces; rich people still like to show the luxury of cumbersome material. But in men's and women's clothes, buttons help highlight the moving lines, such as the arms and chest.

The earliest builders guild in 1250 to form the button of the french. Although the button is still seen as a less practical ornament, but the value of its people forced the country to issue regulations to limit its use. Ziara Frugoni (Chiara Frugoni) "in the books, bank, buttons and other medieval inventions" (Books, Banks, Buttons and Other Inventions from the Middle Ages) a Book telling a story of the period: a judge is questioning a decorative button on women in.