Vintage & Reproduction Buttons

Vintage Lucite Buttons

We’ve found a trove of Lucite button treasure. We’ll be adding more in the coming weeks in fact. The Lucite buttons we carry were made mostly by Best Plastics, a company who manufactured Lucite beads and buttons in Providence Rhode Island from the 1960’s through the early 1980’s. These buttons were manufactured for use in the garment industry and you’ll see many of them commonly on cardigan sweaters and shirt-dresses of the 60’s and 70’s. We like to use our vintage Lucite buttons as closures on necklaces and bracelets, or strung in clusters, like you’d string a traditional bead. Most of the Lucite buttons we carry have a moonglow finish, although we also have some nice opaque solid colors and other fun treasures as well.

Czech Glass Buttons

Reproduction Vintage. We carry a line of pressed Czech glass buttons that were recently made, in many cases using the vintage & antique molds that Czech and Bohemian glass button manufacturers have been putting to use for generations. In this collection, you’ll find cameos, figural, encased florals and more. Again, we like to use these as closures for jewelry projects. But we do sell many of these treasures to clothing designers, knitters, fiber artists and bead-weavers as well.