Vitale Barberis Canonico, one of the oldest woollen mills of the world, celebrates bespoke tailoring with the project Tailor’s Tips, a series of 12 videos in which the master tailor Giovanni Barberis Organista, directed by Gianluca Migliarotti, tells what happens behind the scenes when a hand-stitched suit is created.
The tenth episode of the online tutorials by Giovanni Barberis Organista is about buttonholes and buttons.
You use silk buttonhole twist to make the buttonhole prettier, more in evidence. You’ve seen the buttonholes, now it is time to see the buttons – another important element of a jacket.
It is all important, but a nice button is interesting. Attach the buttons not with an even stitch, but forked, meaning with a three pronged crisscross. Use a normal thread – a bit thick, resistant. The button must be sewn in place, with a bit of a stem, it should be a little loose, not as if it was glued on. You make a knot and it’s done.
