From Nut to Button: A Closer Look at Vegetable Ivory
by Pat & David Fields
A 100+ page comb-bound book (with color illustrations) on the material characteristics, history, and variety of vegetable ivory buttons, with chapters on:
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Why one button manufacturer called vegetable ivory "the one perfect button material".
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Identifying vegetable ivory (Is that button vegetable ivory, horn, bone, celluloid, or ?)
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Caring for vegetable ivory buttons (What NOT to do to them.)
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A fascinating look at the vegetable ivory button manufacturing process.
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What kind of buttons have been made of vegetable ivory. (Short answer - almost every kind)
and more.
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