The Button Project
Koumpounophobia, or the fear of buttons is a surprisingly common phobia, and if you have it then stay away from “The Button Project” at the Macclesfield Silk Museum. This display of over 300 buttons celebrates the towns’ history as the centre of the UK’s silk industry and features hand crafted buttons by designers alongside the museum’s own collection of silk buttons. Don’t miss these miniature works of art, on show until 8th August.
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I love wearing clothes with lots of buttons ie double breasted wool coats, and macs. I also have loads of button through cardigans. As a child and young boy mum would knit me cardigans with ‘fish eye’ buttons and I loved them. These days I like shiny chunky plastic buttons with a nice deep rim round them on round and funnel neck chunky cardis. So I guess I have the inverse of Koumpounophobia as a male