Thursday, September 1, 2011

Buttons - History in the 18 Century


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Apart from the fabric (and days), usually what you see on your clothes? It is probably the most common landscaping. You may not have noticed for its functionality. It's not really thinking as a further warning or design.

Give up? It 'the key.

The word comes from the French bouton. It means a swelling bud or a round object. It 'a very descriptive word for the object itself. The button is usually used as a small screw in the clothing sector. Sometimesis an ornament. And 'adorns clothing, blankets, bags, wallets and pillows. Modern keys are usually made of plastic.

But when the button was invented plastic is still there. The first button is used more than 4,000 years ago during the Bronze Age. The artifacts can be seen in the ancient cultures of the Indus Valley, China and Rome. These buttons were made from old shells, but others were of natural materials, such as bone, wood, horn and metal. They were to fixClothing onwards. They were just for decoration. Our ancestors used belts or pins, clothing fix.

Over time, someone, somewhere, we do not know who invented the flagship. The key-pair in a decorative fashion cap in a closing cost. What we are sure that he arrived in 1200 AD, the button and buttonhole in Europe. Like almost all the useful things in Europe at this moment, convenient button came from the Middle East. It 'was reported with the returnCrusaders and soon became a powerful force in fashion and clothing design.

In 1200 he started in Europe rather tight clothes fit, and most delicate fabrics. Pins were too uncomfortable, but the button was just perfect. The Button Makers Guild was founded in France by 1250 Buttons were works of art and social symbols. The aristocrats restricts the use of keys. It was designed just for them.

In the following century, extended-key use. Slots covered almost covered theClothing. France was the capital of Europe and the button has benefited greatly from this madness. The church can not allow people to enjoy a fashion without comment so that the handle of the snare of the devil was explained to the women who developed breast buttoned. Buttons loaded with clothes so that professional aristocrats serving. In 1520 King Francis I of France wore a gown of black velvet with gold buttons 13,400. She walked into a meeting with King Henry VII of England, also wore aKnob full of seed. Since 1600, the diamonds are the buttons in fashion. The first Duke of Buckingham and ordered a jacket covered with diamond-key in 1620. Louis XIV spent $ 600,000 in only the keys for a year.

However, to overcome the enemies of the buttons were steam. Puritans condemned the button and called them to sin. In the 16 century were not a huge number of keys longer seen as necessary for high fashion. Knopfmacher fact richly decorated in gold and ivory keys.In order to prevent more people the keys were in the 17 Century cheaper materials uses. Buttons were silver and ceramics.

In the 18 century were popular in the large metal buttons, especially uniforms. Under the reign of Napoleon wore tunics sleeve buttons. Double-breasted jacket has been developed. These jackets that were worn on both sides could meet with buttons. If a page grew dirty, upside down and wear a clean one!


Buttons - History in the 18 Century

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