PARIS — Her fingers ran over the smooth red buttons with flecks of gold and the wavy sea-green buttons and the black buttons with ridges that made them look like miniature fans. Yoshini Kondo admired ...
When Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1907, he changed the world — ushering in the Age of Plastics and transforming the way people lived. The phenolic resin took off first as a superior, ...
PARIS — Her fingers ran over the smooth red buttons with flecks of gold and the wavy sea-green buttons and the black buttons with ridges that made them look like miniature fans. Yoshini Kondo admired ...
WATERLOO -- The Black Hawk Button Club will meet at 1 p.m. April 24 at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 207 W. Louise St. There will be a program on Bakelite buttons as well as buttons available ...
For two decades, Faye Moattar has housed her vast stock, from huge mother-of-pearl buttons to exquisite vintage French passementerie buttons, in a store arranged like a back stockroom, with boxes upon ...