Some information about buttons in North America in eighteenth Century

​Rich people buckle complex decorative buttons need someone to help. During this time, the buttons on the men's and women's shirts moved to the different sides of the dress. Men usually wear their own shirts, so their buttons make it easy for them to sew to the right. The ladies have their buttons on the left, and the maids are facing their buttons.

George Washington (George Washington) inauguration in 1789 to show the world the first political buttons. These pieces of metal buttons with copper, brass or copper silver alloy casting production, can buckle breeches or jacket at the same time, also declared the wearer's political attitude. Political buttons appear in a more recognizable modern form in Lincoln's re-election campaign in 1864 (Lincoln). Look at the history of the political buttons for 150 years) and poor people wear buttons, but they can only do it themselves. In colonial America, the working class family with a hand-held button model would have been lucky enough to last until the early twentieth Century. The mold is heated in coal bed burning, filling into the melted tin cast button shape, then these hard buttons covered with cloth or other decoration.

Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln) campaign buttons, 1964 photograph: Library of Congress (Library of Congress) to make the home spare buttons can also be sold, which means that the button is a hell of a piece of work in manufacturing. William Henrik Ibsen (Henrik Ibsen) in "Bell Gent" (Peer Gynt) the key scene introduced his own family to cast bad memories: cast button buttons have taken Sargent soul, he said, good heaven, bad to hell, and moderate "and numerous living beings soul together" pour, melt the purgatory without distinction as people buckle Ye spoon, a new button. Button production was lucky enough to catch up with the industrial revolution. In 1852, Charles Dickens (Charles Dickens) as editor of the "Words" (Household) magazine in an article on the contemporary button automatic manufacturing technology surprised. The author describes how to cut steel mold carving the most fashionable form, while women and children use the machine out of cardboard and cloth covered buttons. A machine ran out of the four holes that were popular on the men's shirt buttons, and another machine worked through the holes, pressing the buttons in the middle to form a raised edge. (this is the four hole button that is considered as a button sign today.)

A crowded family workshop in Massachusetts is pulling a button through a button mold in September 1912. Photo by Lewis Weeks Heini (Lewis Wickes Hine) to get this time people eager to apply buttons from the patent protection of the Library of Congress in the United States, almost all aspects of the production of buttons, from the method of manufacturing glass or mother of pearl buttons, metal wire to make cheaper buttons, even for sale button display card to apply for a patent reform.