If you have a few of grandmother's buttons, or find some vintage buttons in an antique store, you can transform an ordinary shadowbox frame into an interesting work of art in less than an hour.

They are invisible everyday items you only notice when they are missing, but for a few centuries buttons were the status symbols of their time. And, if you know how to read them, buttons are peepholes ...

Katie Paaso, a longtime quilter who lives on Oregon’s northern coast, inherited a vintage button collection from her aunt 25 years ago. The various fasteners, some antique glass, celluloid or brass, ...

26 May 1973: Buttons are a mirror not only of fashion but also of social custom A box found in an attic in New England had a label on the lid saying: “String too short to be saved.” This Puritan sense ...

BELLA VISTA -- Robin Schrad, founder of the NWA Heritage Button Club, recently discussed a vintage button collection that is temporarily on display at the Bella Vista Historical Museum. She said when ...