The history of the button "Do you know it" |
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History can not say to us that invented the
button. In the Middle Age, one used that the "metal clasp", the hook(staple) of
metal collecting the two parts of a garment, either still the dignitaries of time were
simply sewn the two edges of the garment, work that it was inevitably necessary to undo
and to redo every day.
It is in the" surcot" of which the very wide sleeve of the height and that squeezed(tightened) the front arm of the elbow in the wrist that the appearance of one on row of buttons has to been in 14-th century. Since the button was more and more used through centuries.
Under Louis XIV, of utility until then, buttons heighten to the rank of set of table linen. The princes and the foreign ambassadors saw offering by King Sun of the fineries of twenty four buttons enriched of diamonds. The ladies of the Court glistened with real stone buttons. |
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Louis XV, the button printed(swindled) of gold appeared and the King imposed (it) on the
suits of the army and the navy, on the clothes of hunting and the livery.
Under Louis XVI, the button was monopolized by the eccentric fashion. Big buttons, decorated in the hand of miniatures were raised. These flowers, these landscapes, these courtship were often executed by artists famous painters, such as Isabey, Dumont, David. In the XIX-th century, were the romantic waistcoats which propagated definitively the first buttons of mother-of-pearl. This mother-of-pearl however already known in the Middle Age, and called then shell of pearl, was used for the manufacture of luxury objects.
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During the XVI-th century, it served for fabricating movable objects, or under shape of inlays, for decorating furniture imitated with the East.
In the XVIII-th century, English explorers related of Australia of great shells of oysters , our mother-of-pearl black. The brilliant inside had seduced them. It was general craze for this material that one transformed into caskets, ranges, snuffboxes, sleeves of knives, jewels and finally quite naturally in buttons.
This new industry centralizes in the Oise on MERU's canton at about the 1828 (ANDEVILLE, MERU, AMBLAINVILLE and some other hamlets of the region).
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