buttons are considered to be a compulsory need of fashion designing and textile industry. button is a small fastener which is used to join two pieces of cloth together. apart from that buttons are used to decorate fabrics, shoes, bags and other fashion related things and similar items for purposes of ornamentation. a button works by slipping through a fabric, thread hole or sliding through a button hole.
buttons are commonly made of plastic, wood, metal and nowadays buttons are made of any possible hard material such as glass, stones, horn, rubber, bone, sea shells and etc.
at the present time the ranking trend is to use natural material based products in every field of manufacture. The trend began to replace most of plastic and glass product's with wood, clay and other natural materials. as a result we can see a remarkable increase of demanding for naturally made buttons.
natural buttons are mostly made of wood, coconut shell and sea shells. here we talk about the buttons made of coconut shells.
buttons can be known as a miniature work of art. absolutely it is a piece of art which is helpful in clothing and other fashion related works.
coconut shell buttons are made of dried coconut shells cut in to shapes. the process is very simple. first yo have to choose a coconut shell. then cut it in to round shape or any preferred shape. make holes in it and finally polish it and paint it if needed. but it has its own natural color which is differ from shell to shell. it has a color range starting from light brown to black or very dark brown color.
these machines can be both machine made or handmade. no mater which process it took, the final product is same and wonderful. but i must say that hand made process takes more time than the machine made.
using cutting machines we can cut a coconut shell in to different shapes. then we have to hole it in to two holes button or four holes button. final thing to do is polishing the button using sand papers. after a proper polishing you will get a beautiful piece of art.
these buttons can be used in fastening fabrics, to decorate clothes, hand bags, wallets and foot wares.
coconut buttons are often used in Hawaiian aloha shirts which are very famous. so these buttons are also known as Hawaiian buttons or aloha buttons. and also these buttons have been sewing in to frocks and skirts to make them fashionable and more beautiful.
coconut shell buttons are also washable. the durability will last long with a quick wash. the quality can be improved by coating a durability enamel.
instead of regular round shape, coconut buttons come handy with various shapes and in various style. some buttons can be seen as absolute miniature works of art.
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