ABW Quality
We use three primary brands of polymer clay: FIMO, Cernit, and Premo. Some embellishments may be added from our existing stock of Sculpey III. Our surface treatments use Golden and Winsor Newton Acrylics and Jacquard Pearl-Ex Powders. Our thinking is, you can't make high-quality objects with inferior materials. We choose the best whenever possible.
Realizing that our buttons will end up in relationships with fine textiles and yarns, and will often be functional as well as ornamental, we take great care in our finishing process with both coated and uncoated buttons. ABW buttons will not snag. Neither will their holes wear threads any more than regular, boring buttons do!
Non-clay materials which may grace some buttons will be securely integrated into the button--no disappearing bits! Much more information about the durability of ABW buttons can be found on our Research Page.
We are careful about all aspects of our buttons because they are ABW Buttons and represent us and our creative work. We value our work and therefore we won't send out anything that doesn't meet our very high standards.
All but our earliest buttons (and the ones where
we, very infrequently, forget) will bear
the ABW mark and the maker's initial. The reason for some missing marks is that we started making buttons while we were setting up the logistics of the business. One of the tasks was designing the mark and then
having it created in a form we could use.
