Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1913 — Buttons of Silk. [ARTICLE]

Buttons of Silk.

Some of the midsummer frocks are trimmed with what at a little distance appear to be huge crochet buttons. On closer inspection they prove to be made of silk. Here is the secret of their making: Take a circle of silk and shir a little circle in the center of it. Make another line of shirring a little distance from this circle and continue shirring the silk in circles until you have a piece of shirred button mold. The shir strings should be carried to the* wrong side of the silk —the side next the button mold —and fastened securely there.