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We are excited to announce that we have been able to procure a sufficient quantity of canvas (tuft) backed button moulds to offer them for sale to reenactors. These are old stock from the last remaining company in the US that produced them. The machine that produced them broke over 30 years ago and was finally scrapped in 2012. So when these are gone, they are gone. We cover them using silk or linen fabric on our 19th century model button machine, designed for factory use. These are vintage parts and indistinguishable from antique ones, except the silk is not rotted from age. These are ideal for ladies or gentlemen's civilian clothing and an addition to the hobby that is long overdue.
""The manufacture of cloth buttons, which is so extensively carried on, is due to time bombardment of Copenhagen by Lord Nelson. A Mr. Saunders, resident in that city, having lost his entire fortune by the bombardment, came to England and began to make cloth-covered buttons with an iron shank. His son speedily improved on his father's invention, and devised the flexible shank, or tuft of cloth, which protrudes through the back of the button, and can be pierced in any direction by a needle. This improvement was patented in 1825, and was the foundation of immense wealth for the Saunders family." Taken from Manufacture and Builder October 1869.
These backs are available in 36L (7/8") Black and White, 30L (3/4 inch) White, 24L (5/8") Black and White and 20L (1/2") White. Custom covering can also be done.
Direct inquiries to buttonbaron@earthlink.net
(36L in sets of 4, other sizes in sets of 6) Thank you.
John Zaharias, Sutler. "The Button Baron"
""The manufacture of cloth buttons, which is so extensively carried on, is due to time bombardment of Copenhagen by Lord Nelson. A Mr. Saunders, resident in that city, having lost his entire fortune by the bombardment, came to England and began to make cloth-covered buttons with an iron shank. His son speedily improved on his father's invention, and devised the flexible shank, or tuft of cloth, which protrudes through the back of the button, and can be pierced in any direction by a needle. This improvement was patented in 1825, and was the foundation of immense wealth for the Saunders family." Taken from Manufacture and Builder October 1869.
These backs are available in 36L (7/8") Black and White, 30L (3/4 inch) White, 24L (5/8") Black and White and 20L (1/2") White. Custom covering can also be done.
Direct inquiries to buttonbaron@earthlink.net
(36L in sets of 4, other sizes in sets of 6) Thank you.
John Zaharias, Sutler. "The Button Baron"