Used as adornments, symbols of wealth, practical fastenings and couture accents, buttons were relied on throughout history by everyone from the Indus people of the Bronze Age to the ancient Romans ...
Edmund de Waal's The Hare With Amber Eyes was an outlandishly unlikely bestseller in 2010. How could a book about a collection of Japanese buttons sell more than a million copies? But the popularity ...
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