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2. Pin-back button - Wikipedia

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   Pin-back button. A pin-back button or pinback button, pin button, button badge, or simply pin-back or badge, is a button or badge that can be temporarily fastened to the surface of a garment using a safety pin, or a pin formed from wire, a clutch or other mechanism. This fastening mechanism is anchored to the back side of a button-shaped metal ...

3. Buttonhole - Wikipedia

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   A buttonhole is a reinforced hole in fabric that a button can pass through, allowing one piece of fabric to be secured to another. The raw edges of a buttonhole are usually finished with stitching. This may be done either by hand or by a sewing machine. Some forms of button, such as a frog, use a loop of cloth or rope instead of a buttonhole. [1]

4. Button - Wikipedia

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   A button is a fastener that joins two pieces of fabric together by slipping through a loop or by sliding through a buttonhole . In modern clothing and fashion design, buttons are commonly made of plastic but also may be made of metal, wood, or seashell. Buttons can also be used on containers such as wallets and bags.

5. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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   Sewing is an ancient craft involving the stitching of cloth, leather, animal skins, furs, or other materials, using needle and thread. Its use is nearly universal among human populations and dates back to Paleolithic times (30,000 BC). Sewing predates the weaving of cloth. sewing circle.

6. Buttonholer - Wikipedia

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   Simanco No. 489510 Buttonholer Kit (laid out). A buttonholer is an attachment for a sewing machine which automates the side-to-side and forwards-and-backwards motions involved in sewing a buttonhole . Most modern sewing machines have this function built in, but many older machines do not, and straight stitch machines cannot sew a zigzag stitch ...

7. Shank (sewing) - Wikipedia

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   Shank (sewing) A leather button with a metal shank. 17th-century Spanish metal shank button. Buttons with shanks. A shank is a device for providing a small amount of space in between a garment and a button. Shanks are necessary to provide space for fabric to sit in between the button and the garment when the garment is buttoned.