Button Jewelry & Accessories: 22 Unique Projects

Unique jewelry and craft projects featuring ordinary and extraordinary buttons, plus beads and fabrics. Button Jewelry & Accessories transforms ordinary and not-so-ordinary buttons into unique necklaces, rings, accessories, and home decorations. Twenty original projects combine buttons of all shapes and sizes with beads or fabric. The projects have easy step-by-step instructions with photography, and they can easily be personalized with favorite colors and materials. This cute and colorful book will inspire crafters to run to their nearest fabric or craft store in search of the perfect buttons.

Tair Parnes is a fashion and jewelry designer who turns everyday items into art.

Tair Parnes is a designer and instructor, and the author of Button Jewelry and Accessories (Quayside 2006) and of Beaded Jewelry Design (Sterling, 2007). Tair combines a cornucopia of materials in her work, integrating everyday materials with beads and buttons, fabric and wool, gold and silver, plastic and natural materials.