Duttons For Buttons

«An absolute Gem».
This old fashioned unassuming shop has an EXTREMELY comprehensive range of buttons in every imaginable colour or size including some often very unique and sometimes quirky rare vintage buttons which are necessary to make garments look just that little bit special.
As a fashion design student I go nowhere else, and travel over an hour from time to time to see what is in stock as they almost invariably have something to suit my often vary particular requirements; and the staff have gone to quite some lengths to track down buttons from their other stores when the Ilkley store may not have quite the number I need. I cannot thank them enough. Very highly recommended.
Lynlee Rampton

Oh. My. This place is a little bit too much my kind of place, to the point that it’s a little dangerous for me to be inside it. I simply want to purchase everything! I’m the kind of person who not only wants to have anything shiny that is within half a mile of my personage, but also, the kind of person who sees the possibility in customising ANYTHING! Duttons For Buttons must share my way of thinking.
They sell all kinds of exciting haberdashery style items, including hoards of their namesake, buttons. Be it lace, wool, embroidery, needles, threads and the blooming rest. My absolute special favourite is their amazingly creative hessian bag idea. They sell re-​usable hessian bags-​for-​life with a heart shaped print made up of little button spaces! It’s a buttons by numbers bag! Essentially, you purchase the awesome bag and customise it yourself with buttons over the print! I just love it. And let’s be really honest, anyone could do it, but who else has actually thought of it?!
So, I’ll ask a bit of a naughty question. What do you do when you finish work? Slump home? Podge down on the sofa? Burn off a few brain cells watching Hollyoaks? Well, try this instead. Next Saturday, go to Ilkley. The train fare is really reasonable. Go to Duttons. Buy something imaginative. Anything — a random project of some sort. And spend an hour a night being creative! You’ll feel so much better, and you’ll have something to show for it in a few weeks. Marvellous!

Have you ever watched Johnny Depp in Pirates for a Caribbean and thought, «I love those buttons on his waistcoat» or said
«wow I love that clasp on Madonna’s dress there» in Evita. Well now you know where you can get them from to replicate that pirate chic (or just button up your old blazer), Duttons for Buttons.
This quaint town in the gorgeous old told of Ilkley still remains with it’s original décor. The exterior and in are very old fashioned and plain like that of a 1950’s haberdashery. I like this, along with the friendly staff it gives off a welcoming, authentic warmth.
Duttons for Button provides an absolutely massive range of buttons. So if you like customizing clothes, knitting, fashion designing or even doll and teddy bear making this is your place. Guaranteed Duttons will have exactly the kind of button you are after, and in several different colours.
In addition to selling buttons they sell braids, lace, hems, sequins, fabrics, wools and everything else a traditional haberdashery should! Walking in makes me want to get creative and start sewing lace around all my cardigans (maybe that wouldn’t look cool?!)
Prices are of an average but buttons a little higher tthat maybe your local haberdashery would sell them for. But who knows, your cardigan could have exactly the same buttons that are on Johnny Depp’s jacket!