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| cut several circles out of ice cream packaging, for the button base. |
This costume has around 30 buttons, in two sizes that's a lot. Buttons are expensive, even coverable buttons. Locally, I can't buy them in boxes, which is a bit cheaper, and ordering them online involves shipping on top. So, because only three of these will be functional buttons, and after watching an 18th century covered button tutorial on Burnley & Trowbridge's YouTube channel, I decided to make my recycled version of those buttons.
I made a button template in cardboard, and traced it onto ice cream packaging. Ice cream pakaging is sturdy plastic, should be a good substitute for bone or wood, the materials used in the 18th century. Then cut them with all-purpose scissors.
+ This way the buttons will basically be free.
- I'll have to cut all the circles and then hand cover them.
THE CUNNING PLAN
Glue the plastic circles onto leftover felt, to add volume.
[written in 29.11.2020]
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