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Basic Button Making with Gina-B

Basic Button Making with Gina-B

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Highlights

  • On-Demand course

  • 1 hour

  • Beginner level

Description

Learning from home at your own pace, in your own time. There is no time limit to this course.

This course will teach you how to make 11 different thread buttons using a variety of techniques. The buttons chosen give a good foundation for button making, covering different aspects such as changing colours, wrapping and basic weaving.

Gina’s Button Making 101 in person workshop covers as many of these buttons as there is time for - but in one day there is not usually the time to cover every one of these, plus the variations suggested here.

This is a great introductory course for complete beginners, and an equally good refresher course for anyone who has tried thread button making in any form in the past.

Each button instruction is by way of a video - shot from above, enabling you to see what is happening. Gina explains the process, and you can start and stop the videos as you require.

There are also 8 exercises - ideas for you to try once the basic buttons are successfully created. There are no direct instructions here, rather suggestions to encourage your creativity, just as if you were in a workshop with Gina.

As a bonus, all students of this course will also receive free access to an additional course - Finishing Your Buttons

Tools & Materials

The following tools and materials have been used on the course. You may of course choose a differently sized button mould or thread, but in order to follow the instructions as shown, you may find it easier to use the same materials.

A Materials pack - including threads, moulds, needles, stick and beeswax has been put together and is available in the Gina-B Silkworks shop - Basic Button Making Course Materials Pack.

Enrolled students will receive a one-time voucher code for use in our online shop at https://www.ginabsilkworks.co.uk/

Materials:

  • Circle Button Moulds No 3 (25mm) - at least 16

  • Ring Button Moulds No 32 (19mm) - at least 8

  • Hexagon Button Moulds No 11 (25mm) (optional)

  • Cotton Perle Thread No 8 - at least 2 colours

Tools:

  • Scissors

  • Beeswax

  • Tapestry needle

  • stick, awl or long pin

Optional Tools:

  • Circle Gauge Set (links to the new design of this tool)

  • Button Maker's Third Hand & Tool Tin

  • Button Tools

Course Content

Getting Started
  1. Introduction
  2. Tools and Materials
  3. A note on names & spellings
  4. Student's Facebook Group
  5. Course Terms & Copyright
  6. Extra information (stitches, etc)
The Buttons
  1. The Death's Head Button (right handed workers) - traditional
  2. The Death's Head Button (left hand workers) - traditional
  3. 2 Colour Death's Head - traditional
  4. Peace Button (Ottobeurer) - traditional
  5. Square Wrap Button - traditional
  6. Maze Button
  7. 6 Point Wrap Button traditional
  8. Star Wrap (6 point) Button - traditional
  9. Woven Star Button - traditional
  10. Dorset Crosswheel - traditional
  11. Dorset Basket - traditional
  12. Basic Zwirnknopfe Button - traditional
Exercises
  1. Introduction to the exercises
  2. Exercise 1: variations on the death's head
  3. Exercise 2 : variations on the square wrap
  4. Exercise 3 : Variations on the Peace button
  5. Exercise 4 : variations on the 6 point wrap
  6. Exercise 5 : Variations on the star wrap
  7. Exercise 6 : Variations on the Dorset crosswheel
  8. Exercise 7 : Variations on the Dorset basket
  9. Exercise 8 : Variations on the basic zwirnknopfe

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