The art of bespoke buttons

• • Eduard has his own patented button making techniques
• • He created bespoke buttons for world-famous department store Harrods
• • He supplies theatres, opera houses and fashion designers

Eduard Rosa started making fabric coated buttons in 1976 when the custom manufacture of such items was virtually non-existent in the then-Czechoslovakia. Thirty years later he came across a vintage cord braided soutache button and it was "love at first sight", he says. "I learned the secrets of the trade and thread-winding step by step, with no tutorials, no artisans to consult, no specialty material suppliers." Taking inspiration from historical costumes, he combined the traditions of the craft with modern materials and a variety of patterns. Now he supplies unique handmade soutache buttons to theatres, operas and fashion designers across Europe.