Stone's Neat Stuff - Button Reference Page

Button Reference

Button Dictionary

- One of the great pages at TIAS, and part of the Button Bytes group's information...very handy for us newbees who have no idea of how to talk about our buttons

http://www.tias.com/articles/buttons/dictionary1.html

The Antique Button Review Reference Shelf

- A bibliography of books on buttons for those of us who need to know more!

http://www.geocities.com/indiajang/ButtonBiblio.html

A Button Collector's Booklist
- another bibliography, this time with links to buy when available

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Realm/1695/Goldenbooks.html

Button Information Index
- has various button studies up, where you can learn more about the ins and outs of the style/material/type...lots of wonderful pics

http://vintagebuttons.net/educational.html

The Button Journal and Museum
- pics, articles, links, information about button organizations

http://hometown.aol.com/thebjm1/page2.html

The Buttonarium

Described as an online button museum, with some reference material.

http://www.buttonarium.com/homepage.html

Plique-a-jour buttons
This site is a study on those buttons which can be defined as a style of enameling in which usually transparent enamels are fused into the openings of a metal filigree to produce an effect suggestive of stained glass. Beautiful button type!

http://vintagebuttons.net/plique.html

Collectible China Buttons
A great site - she goes over a wide variety of buttons and discusses their shapes and definitions...very informative!

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/5399/index.html

Calico China Buttons
This site has a wealth of information on this particular type of button including a huge catalog of the calico patterns used on the buttons.
http://home.pon.net/behrbaum/

Here is a neat site with a bunch of articles on buttons.

http://www.abuttonlady.com/sys-faq.asp?siteid=29204&PageID=108031

Some State Button Society pages:
(reminder - many of these put out regional journals and have contacts so you can find friends who understand and local information about your button habit!)

California State Button Society - lots of links...
http://members.aol.com/csbsweb/home.htm

New Jersy State Button Society
http://www.buttonshoppe.com/NJBS.htm

North Carolina State Button Society
http://www.jerrysbuttons.com/NCStateInfo.html

Oregon State Button Society
http://www.labelcollector.com/osbs/

Pennsylvania State Button Society
http://members.aol.com/mickikas/PASTATE.html

Washington State Button Society
http://www.iwantbuttons.com/WSBS/

Wisconsin State Button Society
http://www.buttonimages.com/wsbs/Default.htm

Other States (mostly a list of snailmail info)
http://hometown.aol.com/csbsweb/usstateclubs.htm

Another good list for button society contacts:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Realm/1695/buttonclubs.html