Handmade Fair Trade in Indonesia

Glossy White Brass & Leather

Available in black & espresso

Total Latch width - 5 inches

Total Latch weight - 1.5 ounces

Stud Button Diameter - 1.5 inches 

Weight - .5 ounces each 

This new Latch style combines the large Neo-Baroque Stud Buttons with our large leather Latch component to expand your styling options. This bold snap closure is absolutely stunning on sweaters as a closure or back shaping. It effectively snugs cowls while making it easy to open them up and take them off.  And they are gorgeous styling tools to use with shawls of all scales. In addition, the two Neo-Barogue stud buttons may be liberated from the leather snap closure and used on their own.  This stunning combination is absolutely spectacular.

This stud button style was developed from a handmade silver master made years ago for JUL by a skilled artisan in the central south of Bali using an ancient jewelry-making technique called repoussé. Repoussé artisans work by placing a thin sheet of silver or gold on a stiff wax bed and carving into the metal from the back to create raised designs. The motif of this button represents the visual vocabulary of our artisan rather than a design we provided.  We wanted him to deploy his intuitive aesthetic, which resonates with ornamental styles found in many other times and places. 

When we first asked for this button, which is the middle size of a collection of three, it was over a decade ago.  We had not yet developed the stud button form and were using chicago screws to make screw-in pedestal buttons. We were not satisfied with how these designs would work with chicago screw positioned in the center.  Our three handmade masters languished until now, when it became clear they are perfect for our innovative stud button format.