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Author Topic: Wooden Shank Buttons Sean A. Garrison Member Member # 335 posted 07-14-2002 09:36 PM                   Were wooden buttons around in the Middle Ages? -Sean Registered: Jul 2002  |  IP: Logged J.K. Vernier Member Member # 123 posted 07-16-2002 12:54 AM                   I don't know of any clear and undisputable examples. The cloth-covered disk buttons on the Charles de Blois pourpoint, and on the Charles VI coat armor, definitely have solid cores of some sort. I got to see the Charles VI coat once, and the buttons were in too good a condition to be able to see the cores. Some details on the Altichiero frescoes in Padua (1370s-80s), show small bare 4-hole buttons which look a lot like modern shirt buttons, but we can't really make out what material they might be made of. Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged

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