Button &Nbsp; The Eye Of Clothing.

Buttons, known as "eyes" in clothing abroad, are called "pearls" on clothing in China.

As early as 4000 BC, Persians began to process small stones.

In China, the production and use of buttons did not begin until the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Therefore, an important sign to distinguish between ancient and modern costumes is whether there is "buckle" on clothes.

Buttons are divided into two buttons: button button and shoulder button.

Buttons are fastened to clothes, and shoulder buttons are used for decorative decoration of clothes.

Before the Ming Dynasty, most of the ancients used belts to tie up their waist.

Buttons can be divided into: Jade buckles, plastic buttons, plexiglass buttons, nylon buckles, bakelite buckles, fishbone buckles, metal plated copper buckles, chrome plated buckles and so on. According to their different colors, they are divided into bright flowers, dark flowers, mosaic flowers and smooth surfaces. According to their shapes, they can be divided into buttons of round, rhombic, square, drum, convex, concave and wave shapes.

In addition, gold, silver, pearls, gemstones, ceramics, glass, cobblestones, ivory and imitation gold, imitation copper, imitation shells, imitation ivory, imitation jade, imitation pearls, imitation crystal, imitation jade and other buttons.

As well as walnut buttons, Pipa buckles, peach buckles, chrysanthemum buckles, cabbage buckles, butterfly buttons, Begonia buckles, double thread buckles, three leaf buckles and so on.

Now, there are also traditional buttons such as bug buttons and photo buttons.

There are more specifications for buttons, generally 15~26 millimeters, 28~40 millimeters, 2, 1, 0 and 210 buttons. Four points are 20.4 millimeters, 20.3 millimeters, 20.1 millimeters.

Buttons have many varieties, long fashion time, and exquisite workmanship, so every button is a beautiful handicraft.

To appreciate buttons, we can start with the following aspects:

(1) identification age.

The buttons are too neat and stereotyped. The materials are limited to copper, bakelite and other materials. The processing technology uses punch, press and other methods. Most of these buttons are products in 60s and 70s; button patterns, characters are too realistic, patterns and lace are not deformed with traditional lace, and the texture is relatively thick. These buttons are mostly products at the beginning of liberation or before liberation.

Nowadays, buttons are better than the past ones in the design, decoration, processing and material selection.

And the buttons now have symbols or numbers on the back of them, which are distinctly different from those of the past.

(2) enjoy the picture.

Many buttons are on the front side.

(3) identify foreign languages.

Some buttons are rather odd in their designs, such as the old coins, and the words on the back. If there are pictures and foreigners' heads, or ships, or luxuriant trees, there is a circle of words and Arabia figures around the picture. This means that we need to find out the meaning of the foreign words, and then determine which country buttons are and what the pictures are.

(4) find different places.

Appreciation buttons are similar in shape, so that some buttons look basically similar, but from the size of buttons, the fine edges of patterns, the positive and negative sides are carefully compared. They may find different places. The reason may be the renovation of the old ones, the old problems being new, perhaps the self made series, we can see the evolution of buttons.

With the nationalization, artistry, specialization and diversification of buttons, the collection activities have been gradually rising worldwide.

In the United States, there are about 3000000 fans of button collecting.

Many stores in the United States have special counters to supply ancient and valuable buttons.

In 1938, the national button society was founded by a group of American girls, with more than 50 thousand members and its headquarters in Eakins Park, Philadelphia.

The association also regularly publishes the National Journal of Chi Kun Association.

They divide the collection group according to the different buttons. The metal button collection group includes copper buttons, steel buckles, aluminum buttons and so on. The collection group of use buttons collection includes Postal buttons, army buttons, police buttons, etc. the shape buttons collection group is specialized in circle buckle, square buckle and polygon button.

The association is also attached to a button Museum. It displays a total of more than 210 thousand computer controlled carved buttons from thirteenth Century to thirteenth Century, including buttons used by celebrities such as Napoleon, Washington and Queen Victoria.

In London, every year, on the first Sunday of October, we celebrate the traditional theme of button in the city center church.

Two men and one woman were chosen as the kings and queens of the Pearl kingdom. They were dressed in thousands of pearl buttons, clothes, shoes and hats, and held a grand celebration in the church.

The button Museum, built in Tokyo, Japan, is the most influential Museum in the world. It has not only collected more than 20000 buttons produced around the world since eighteenth Century, but all buttons are classified according to the theme of the design.

There are a lot of buttons that are very interesting: for example, buttons with deer, birds and hunting dogs are buttons on the hunting jacket; buttons with umbrellas are painted by Japanese painter van GEE in Japan when they set off the Japanese fever. In the mosaic buttons with a surface area of only 1 square meters, there are hundreds of colorful glass, and designs of sites of historic interest and monuments have become the gifts that European royals are competing to buy and give each other.

In addition, there are also some special buttons, such as comet buttons that are carved in honor of the Halley comet.

There are buttons to support Washington's first president, and so on.

The king of today's collection has been elected to the United States by Ms. Charman, because she has more than 10000 pieces of buttons in all the countries of the world.

As we know, Xia Guanming, the old gentleman in the Chinese Suzhou City, has collected far more than one hundred thousand buttons at all times and in all lands, but it is not known to the world.

Among the buttons he collected, there were original buckles in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period.

Treasure buttons are more common, such as gold flower bud buckle, gilt, all kinds of Liriodendron ring buckles, gold-plated silver inlaid jade buttons, especially those with "918" and "128" words.

In addition, there are also poems on the maple bridge night, the armed revolt, the bronze military buckle, the Kuomintang military and political police, the railway, the fire fighting and the boy scouts.

China's top collector is the executive director of the former Collector's Association of China, Mr. Liu Chun Lai, Secretary General of the Heilongjiang collectors association. He has been fond of collecting and playing the world friends since he was a teenager. At present, there are more than 50000 pieces of buttons. He has gone to Liao Jin and down to the present age. There are many kinds of new products, including the pearl buttons of Liao Dynasty. The saddle buttons of the Yuan Dynasty; the longevity buckles of the Qing Dynasty, the Ci Xi image buttons, the Beiyang Navy buckles, the rare products of the Republic of China, and the largest button in the country -- the wooden red guards with a diameter of 13cm, and the ivory buckles with a minimum diameter of only 2mm. The other is called "another".

As for the colorful fashion buttons of the present age, it is even more colorful. As early as May 26th 1996, he set up the first button spark union hall in Heilongjiang, Harbin, which is called Kasai.

However, no doubt, Ji Kun is still a little-known collection in China, resulting in many rare and rare buttons scattered in the folk become a common object, it is a pity.