It is noticeable, too, how many wives worked: French polishers, lacquerers, brush-makers, steel pen slitters, burnishers, dress and shirt-makers, stud and cuff-makers, button and brooch-makers, ivory-button sorters.
In other words, if enough pattern makers, button dealers and fabric dyers have to close shop, the large enterprises that rely on them will depart, greatly speeding the district's decline.
Many center veterans worry that the mix of adverse forces is producing a vicious cycle where so many zipper makers and button makers leave for other fields that even seasoned dressmakers like Mr. Konheim must farm work out overseas, which compels more specialists to leave.
The Tandycrafts gifts division includes a maker of buttons and ribbon, a sports memorabilia marketer and a Christian products seller.
It started sometime after 1986, when the Emsig Manufacturing Corporation, the nation's largest maker of buttons -- an old but little-known giant of the garment industry -- abandoned its ancient West 60th Street plant in Manhattan after a fire.
Popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the memory jug is a glass or ceramic vessel covered with a layer of putty into which the maker impressed buttons, shells, toys, belt buckles, marbles, thimbles, screws and many other sorts of items.
To house that repeat performance of Chanel's Dec. 2, 2014, tribute to its network of traditional Parisian artisans the button makers, bead makers, embroiderers, and fabric pleaters whose exquisite embellishments add elegance and value to couture creations Lagerfeld transformed New York City's Park Avenue Armory into a "sketch" of the original venue, Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria.
Internet connected button maker, bttn has launched a smaller version of its push-to-activate-a-digital service gadget.
He also supported Birmingham's Oratorio Choral Society, and collaborated with button maker and amateur musical promoter Joseph Moore to put on a series of private concerts in 1799.
When his friend Beck, who had recently bought a button maker, asked him if he'd create a Robert Mueller design for her, Owings didn't have too think much about it.
