Button
A button can have three meanings.
- A button is a fastener that keeps your shirt or pants closed.
- A button is something that sticks up from a flat surface, and when you push it, it makes something happen.
- A button is a picture on a computer monitor that is pressed with a computer mouse to make the computer do something.
Button Media
Brass buttons from the uniform of a Danish World War I artillery lieutenant
Modern buttons made from vegetable ivory
Spanish button (approx. 12 mm) from ca. 1650–1675
Button stamping machine ath the Henri Jamorski Button Factory in Paris, 1919
Three plastic sew-through buttons (left) and one shank, fabric-covered button (right)
An assorti of shank buttons
Plastic studs for bedclothes
A picture of three shirt studs (from left to right): a sliding pin style in red glass, a screw-back onyx evening stud, and a mother-of-pearl on brass evening stud. Scale: back of screw-back stud is 7mm.
Illustration from 1908 Chambers's Twentieth Century. Toggle, n. (naut.) a short bar of wood, tapering from the middle towards each end, placed in an eye at the end of a rope, to keep the end from passing through a loop or knot.
Peter Carl Fabergé buttons in the Cleveland Museum of Art
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