The traditional horn buttons are, of course, more expensive than the plastic or polyester ones, as well as more expensive than the corozo buttons. However, it is a real pleasure to touch them, to study their natural patterns, to feel the warmth, which is characteristic only of the natural materials.
That is why many people like them and the demand for them is quite steady.
Opportunities that the material offers:
The horn is in itself unique and imparts its properties to the horn buttons made from it. Its specific properties and characteristic features, such as thickness, structure, patterns and colour depend on the type, age, health status, etc. of the animal. Modern technologies make it possible its natural beauty to be revealed and its styling according to the designers’ projects.
Depending on their size, the additional treatments, fine or coarse texture, the real horn buttons are suitable for different clothes in view of their style, fabric and use.
They add an excellent finish to clothing of natural materials, especially to manual knitwear and look perfect both on warm winter clothes and on those of the sports line.
Historical background:
When people began to wrap themselves in leather and fur, a need appeared these leather of fur pieces to be fixed with something to stay on their backs. If someone claims that he knows what exactly the first fixing item was – he obviously exaggerates. However, it is close to the mind that it was made of material these people have readily available each day and which was among the first materials they have learned to process. Most probably these first materials were wood and the horns of the animals they have eaten.
Of course these were not the horn buttons of the type we use today, but it is the function that is important in this case, and not the form.
