I have just come back from Istanbul and while wandering round the streets near the Grand Bazaar I came across clusters of wholesale button shops. I wasn't impressed by the buttons themselves but by the sheer quantity of them.
This one was within the covered Bazaar
Button selling is clearly a serious affair
It needs lots of careful consideration
Bagged up and ready to go
Deal made over the obligatory glass of tea
Button presses waiting on the pavement
Basement button cavern
Shop sign
The shops remind me of the shops of my childhood around St Margaret's Street behind Oxford Circus, London's factory dressmaking district.
