{"id":740,"date":"2009-10-17T12:09:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T12:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=740"},"modified":"2009-10-17T12:09:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T12:09:24","slug":"various-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Various Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you who downloaded and listened to my first experiment in podcasting<\/a> – The Wandering Maker<\/a> – will already be familiar with my interest in Various Buttons and my fascination with the buttons found at the bottom of the Thames<\/a> by the Thames Mudlarks.<\/p>\n

I love the idea of this eclectic mix of buttons and I think it is what prompted me to buy some button-themed fabric in Wallingford’s Village Fabrics<\/a> shop last Friday, and to spend much time photographing the buttons on sale in Masons of Abingdon.<\/p>\n

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Village Fabrics was one of several material\/wool shops visited last Friday by me, Emmylou and Ruth.<\/p>\n

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Apparently Abingdon was once a major player in the UK’s woollen trade and I am sure I read somewhere that this grand town hall was once used as a wool exchange where fleeces and wool were traded.<\/p>\n

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In Abingdon Ruth and Emmylou purchased actual buttons, while I photographed the buttons on sale in Masons and compared the effect of all those real buttons on the wall with the printed buttons on my fabric.<\/p>\n

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The idea is to use this fabric to line a Maud<\/a> which I have desired to make ever since a. finding some slightly moth-eaten pieces of Harris Tweed on ebay for 99p and b. seeing this amazing photo<\/a> on Kate’s blog<\/a> of the shepherd holding a lamb in his Maud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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