MANY OF US COLLECT BUTTONS and have boxes full of them, ranging from your everyday sew-through flat buttons that have fallen off clothes to the ornate, vintage glass buttons your great-grandmother passed down through the generations. Why not incorporate the buttons into jewellery that is sure to make a statement? The vintage buttons you’ve been too scared to use could be turned into a new version of a family heirloom that can be worn, or the boring everyday clothes buttons could be turned into a funky new bracelet. What you do with your buttons depends on what type of buttons they are. There are two types: shank, which has a little metal or plastic loop on the back; and sew-through, which has anywhere between two and five holes that go through
