Nasturii - accesoriu vestimentar și podoabă
Buttons - vestimentary accessory and adornment

Summary/Abstract: The buttons made from various materials (bone, shells, pearls, wood,metals, textile yarn, glass and plastic) represent a system of closure who keeps together two pieces of fabric. Buttons have been used not only to close clothes,but also to decorate them.In the middle of 14th century buttons have become an extremely profitable business and tailors have created clothes garnished with many buttons.In America, the buttons have begun to have political connotation since 1789; between 1840 and 1916 they were used in political campaigns and were collected until nowadays.The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography holds accessories and clothing with buttons, glass, bone, metal, fabric. Metal buttons are checked and treated properly not to develop corrosion products, which can destroy them or the fabric and skin to which they are attached.

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