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The Yellow Book Improvement Project

Jerry DeHay and Lou Yeargain are working on

the Yellow Book Improvement Project

They need your help!


    This project is related to Wobble Shank Overall Buttons made between 1900 and 1935. In case we have other wobble shank overall button collectors, we are looking for wobble shank overall buttons that we do not have.

Jerry DeHay and Lou Yeargain have scanned the wobble shank buttons that they have and are looking for ones that they don’t have yet.



  1. Bullet Here is the link to Lou Yeargain’s website:

http://www.bluebirdbuttons.com/yellowbookimprovementproject.htm

 


  1. Bullet Here is what we have improved with color scans from the Yelllow Book. Plates 1-7

http://www.bluebirdbuttons.com/plates_1-7.htm

 


  1. Bullet These are plates 8-14 from the Yellow Book.=

http://www.bluebirdbuttons.com/plates_8_-_14.htm


Instructions are in the first URL

or click this link to download the instructions:

INSTRUCTIONS.pdf


We would love to have your participation in this project.

Check out your wobble shank overall buttons and email us.





Chinese/Japanese Characters (Kanji) On Buttons

Compiled by Maggie Whitson for the 2011 National Button Society meeting

Click these links to download her worksheets:

KanjiHandout.pdf

MonHandout.pdf




Once Upon a Button

Children’s Story Buttons and Kate Greenaway

NBS Convention, Grand Rapids, August 5, 2011

by Sheri DeCew


"Once Upon a Button" is a presentation of children's story buttons where each button was paired with the book it represented bringing back memories of classics, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables, Peter Rabbit and Disney stories. There was also a special section on Kate Greenaway buttons showing each button paired with a matching illustration.

Click these links to download her resources:

Once Upon a Button Resources.pdf

Once Upon a Button Resources.doc


email Sheri if you have any questions.





Button Country

  1. Bullet Based on numerous inputs related to the detailed glossary of back types now published on Button Country, Paul Rice has designed and posted worksheets for all glossary back types. URLs are as follows:

 


  1. Bullet Back types home page with 150 examples of the 60+ back types defined in the Blue Book and its official references.

 


  1. Bullet Detailed glossary of the 60+ back types.

 


  1. Bullet Printable version of glossary.

 


  1. Bullet Printable work sheets based on glossary.

 


  1. Bullet Printable worksheets w/o images.

 

All PDF documents can be printed or downloaded



  1. Bullet For those who steer new collectors to educational information or maybe just love

clear and colored glass buttons, visit our new learning resource on Button Country.

Click here to see 210 visual examples (front and back) demonstrate every class and subclass type cited in Section 7 of the Blue Book. A simple primer on basic colors (7-3), including a printable work sheet for beginners, is included.

I thank all the collaborators including major assistance by Lou Yeargain, Becky Lyon, and Barbara Barrans. Without their contributions and guidance, this project would not have happened.  Take a look.








Calico Pattern Identification by George Gauthier


Download a PDF version of George’s workshop at the 2010 National Button Society Convention. The graphics are best viewed in color as many are overlays on enlarged versions of the original drawings.

Gauthier NBS talk - calico patterns.pdf






  1. Bullet China buttons from Briare, France

where the the Bapterosses Factory & Museum are located.



Go to the BysonButtons website to download and print this china buttons study sheet.



                                                                      

        
             

  1. Bullet Cheshire Jewels Study Sheets               


Go to the Buckeye State Button Society website to download and print this study sheet, produced by WRBA (Joy Journeay and Virginia Cox).





  

A Fresh Look at the Borders on Buttons       

Click this link to see this article that was published in the May 1999 NBS Bulletin.




   
       

  1. Bullet Hard White Pewter Buttons            


Go to the Buckeye State Button Society website to download and print this study sheet.







Pattern classes and subclasses

based on the May 2009 National Button Bulletin article.






  1. Bullet Click this link to view & download the black glass worksheets Yessy Byl made for WRBA as well as other great study sheets which are available on their website.


Other worksheets on this webpage:


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  1. Bullet Cheshire Jewells Study Sheets

by Virginia Cox and Joy Journeay

  1. Bullet Wood Button Study Sheets

by Gloria Skovronsky


  1. Bullet Synthetic Polymer Study Sheets

by Gloria Skovronsky





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NBS - Member’s Worksheets & Other Articles


Check here each month for a new article or worksheet written by an NBS member--illustrated, of course!--about favorite button topics. Follow each link to the website, where each article is published. Or download the pdf file onto your desktop & print.