The Baltimore Sun

Fascinating fasteners Button business: Once, the Morton Schenk Co.’s biggest customers were store alteration departments and clothiers’ seamstresses. Times have changed ...

Baltimore’s biggest button box is the aging but still vigorous Morton Schenk Co., the place where tailors head for elusive little circles of pearl, plastic, rhinestone, bone and metal. And let’s not ...
Business Wire

Research and Markets: The Fastener, Button, Needle, And Pin Manufacturing Industry's Revenue for the Year 2008 Was Approximately $1.0 Billion USD, With an Estimated Gross ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/942dec/fastener_button) has announced the addition of Supplier Relations US ...
wacotrib

Fascinated by fasteners: Button enthusiast to share at statewide show in Waco

Jean Behringer’s house isn’t just home to a 10,000-button collection. It’s also the repository of numerous unpublished stories about buttons, clothes decorated with buttons, books about buttons old ...
BBC

The ingenious invention to better the button

The zipper has transformed everything from fashion to safety equipment. But the plans to make this intensely useful mechanism took some time to come together… We use it every day, a rather fascinating ...