She slips into the supply closet, careful not to draw any attention to herself. She takes a small ball of porcelain clay in her hand and a tiny cup of pastel aqua glaze and hastens back to her desk.
As her coworkers leave for the night, Johanna bids them good bye and offers to lock up. Once the coast is clear she begins kneeding and working the clay in her hand... white as snow, this clay is like am empty canvas, waiting for paint.
Johanna forms a round button and gently presses it's sides into the table... careful to keep the form pleasantly feminine, with a twist. As Johanna prepares to insert the back wire into the button she realizes that her envelope pushing days have only just begun and she does the unthinkable, (for a button maker)... she leaves off all means of attaching the button to anything!
Dizzy with excitement and buzzing with joy, Johanna works through the night, pressing and playing with the clay, kneeding and mashing it. She pre-dries them in a start-of-the-art, 1968 Dry-O-Tron, so that she can glaze the buttons and have them in hand before she leaves work. At 6am Johanna leaves her letter of resignation on her boss' desk and takes her "buttons" home.
Years go by and Johanna works with clay every day, on her own terms. She makes mugs and bowls, plates and vases. She never looks back until one day she finds those fateful items... the ones that begged to be made. But what shall she do with these backless buttons? These seemingly uses knobs of clay?
Johanna decides to sell them to another artist, so that they can use her vision toward their own....
While I, (that artist that purchased these backless buttons), have no idea where they originated I *do* know that they are vintage and I *do* know that I love them! As to their maker's name, rogue-ness or hatred of corduroy I cannot say... the above is what I imagine when I think of these little buttons.
I didn't make the buttons but I made everything else, from scratch... just like Johanna would have, (had she ever existed).
Imposingly Feminine, this ring is sure to turn heads while also bringing a smile!
DETAILS:
Vintage Cabochon: 22mm in diameter
Ring Size: In stock = 6
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