Description
Midcentury Modern Stud Button Closure Sets
- Product Notes
- The Brand
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We love the ease of use, security, and crisp, sleek styling that these screw-in closure adds.
Set includes 1 Circle, 1 Square & 1 Triangle
This new style of (re)moveable styling tack has a stud element that is integrated into the button instead of a screw-in mechanism added to a leather disk like Jūl’s other powerful styling tool – the leather screw-in Pedestal Button Styling Tacks.
This new genre of styling tack combines simple shapes with a subtle, modulated surface that lends elegance and interest.
To use the buttons, simply remove the leather backing, slip the button shaft in between the stitches of the knitwear / crochetwear and then pop the leather backing on the shaft on the wrong side of your material.
It’s crisp, quick, and easy. These stud buttons are not just quick finishing. They are instantaneous finishing.
Hand-made from brass & leather
Ornament Size – 1 inch
Shaft Length – 3/8 inch
Leather disk diameter – 7/8 inch
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JUL is the creation of Laura Bellows and Agus Astradhi. Their stunning and unusual designs are made by artisans in Indonesia or in their studio in the US.
Originally trained as an anthropologist at the University of Virginia, Laura earned her PhD in cultural anthropology in 2003 based on two years of field research in Bali, Indonesia. Her research-adventure in Bali allowed her to develop relationships with the people and the culture that were essential for her founding of JUL in 2007 and which remain so to the present day.
Agus Astradhi was trained at the Arts University in Bali as a painter and designer. Upon graduation he created jewelry designs for the world famous Balinese jewelry company Suarti. He worked as a free-lance jewelry designer and graphic artist before joining Laura to found JUL in 2007.
Hand-made Fair Trade in Indonesia
JUL works with skilled metal and wood-workers in Indonesia. “We give them our custom designs for execution and then work closely and collaboratively to develop these pieces into JUL products. The artisans we work with establish their own prices for each piece we contract with them to make. We do not try to bargain their prices lower.
We consider our artisans to be creative partners as we frequently ask them to make designs that are very different those they receive from other clients. Because our designs are unconventional compared to the other designers they work with, their willingness to develop creative solutions with us, and to experiment and innovate is an important factor in our working relationship.
Not all artisans are interested in learning something new and working in such a collaborative and dialogic manner. We have developed these relationships of mutual understanding and creative partnership over the course of the past decade.”
