Comments on: Maureen Rose, Button Maker

By: slope

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By: John French

John French — Mon, 20 May 2024 10:11:05 +0000

I went to this shop 5 years ago. After the closure of The Button Queen in Marylebone Lane I doubted whether I would be able to find another shop that specialised in buttons. Taylors was a visit to the past. Exceptional service and prices that belonged to the 1940s. Two button problems were resolved for a ridiculously low price – and very accurate advice was dispensed.
It isn’t often that you find a shop owner who seems to be doing a job for enjoyment rather than profit.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:59:54 +0000

I have jars of colourful buttons, also shell buttons and glass buttons from Eastern Europe. It’s easy to revamp clothes and give them a new life by simply changing the buttons or by adding a nice trim. Inexpensive and better for the environment than ending up in landfill. If I’m ever in London I would love to pay a visit to this treasure trove of a shop, I think I could spend all day there and have a lovely time.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Fri, 17 May 2024 11:57:26 +0000

My days as a collector are mostly over — but whenever I come across an old button box or glass jar of saved buttons, I have to succumb. Within the random treasures inside are always “extras” –
enough for a short story, methinks. A single pink garter, a tiny religious medal, a clutch of hair pins, a lone wooden toggle button (big as a knuckle), a necklace of safety pins, a beyond-tattered cloth flower, and more.

A minor Dickens connection perchance? – This morning I recalled that my mother’s button box was a repurposed tin from a holiday fruitcake, with a full-color illustration from “A Christmas Carol” on the lid. The cheerfulness of the image always added to the enjoyment of sitting next to my mother at her sewing machine, making doll clothes, in childhood. And, yes, the old machine endures.

Buttons hold us together. Stories, too.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 17 May 2024 07:47:50 +0000

That’s a beautiful story . Tribute to a beautiful craftswoman and a man who gives people a chance the Gentle Author .
Thank you and bless you both .

Andy Strowman

By: Gee Farrow

Gee Farrow — Fri, 17 May 2024 06:16:47 +0000

These old style shops fascinate me….I always wonder how they make a living out of them! There is/was a very similar shop in Islington, just down from Highbury and Islington station, selling bits and bobs (mainly lingerie), but I haven’t been that way in ages to check if it’s still there. They are like precious little time capsules.