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Show Making Shankless. Buttons Usable ill CHE CLOTH SHANKS of covered button moulds frequently pull out with disastrous consequences, conse-quences, for ono is not likely to possess duplicates of such buttons when a coa? or suit has been bought ready-made, and It is Impossible to obtain oven a snip of cloth from any portion of a modern economically cut garment for the making of fresh buttons. but-tons. Some women sew tho shankless button flat over Its buttonholo and add an Invisible snap beneath to effect tho fastening; but thero is a way to make tho shankless button rotain Its hold on the material In such a way that It may bo buttoned and unbuttoned. With a doublo strand of darning cotton cot-ton of shade similar to tho material covering tho button, work a pattern of threads across the back, taking tiny stitches at tho edgo of tho button and carrying oach thread straight across the diameter. When you havo worked, all around tho button in this way you will have many strands of the cotton, all crossing each other at a point In tho center. Nov.- start at tho center, weaving tho darning ncedlo In and out. under and over the radiating threads, and keeping tho wovon stitches very closo to each other as rH your disc of solid weaving extends j outward. Through this disc you may I sow tho button to tho coat, as you H would sew through an ordinary cloth jJ shank, and tho woven stitches, qulto invisible if tho work has boen nicely j iH done, will give the button a new lcaso H I of llfo.. j lH |