Repair Guide: How to Sew a Button

A Button Back Where It Belongs

Buttons come loose. Sometimes they get caught, sometimes they wear thin, sometimes they just give up after years of honest work. It's not a failure - it's a sign the garment's been properly lived in.

Sewing a button back on is simple, and it keeps a good piece of kit in action.

All you need is a needle, some strong thread, and the original button. If the button's still hanging on, cut it free. If it's gone altogether, use a spare or a matching replacement.

Thread your needle and knot the end. Push the needle up through the fabric from the inside of the garment, where the button was originally sewn. Line the button up, then stitch straight through one hole and down through the opposite one. Repeat this a few times until the button feels firm.

Leave a little room - you don't want it strangled tight against the fabric. Wrap the thread around the stitches a couple of times underneath the button to create a small shank, then push the needle back through to the inside, tie it off in a solid knot, and trim the thread.

That's it. Button back on. Jacket back in the game.

Because a Swanndri doesn't belong in the cupboard.

It belongs out there - earning its keep.

Engineered for generations. Built to endure.