Starting a button-making business involves a modest investment in equipment, supplies and marketing aids, and you can operate this type of business from a spare room in your home or a small rental ...

John Boepple settled in Muscatine, Iowa, where he produced pearl buttons made from freshwater mussel shells. His innovations brought economic prosperity to the town—and disaster to the local mussel po ...

We stock the shell, pinback, and clear Mylar cover required to create buttons. Up to 20 buttons may be made free, after which there is a charge of $0.25 per 1.5” button and $0.50 per 3” button.

The button maker is used for making 1-1/4" and 2-1/4" buttons and pins. In the Maker Lab we have a Badge-A-Minit button maker and a Happizza button maker with interchangeable molds.