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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4639163, member: 2844&quot;]The &#039;Zeeuwse knoop&#039; started life in the 16th-17th century as a button, so it is a button. It made its way to other parts of the costume, just like earlier Medieval buttons did.</p><p>This is a natural process of closures, you also see it in the fibula that became a decorative brooch.</p><p>And even in the far more recent zipper (ritssluiting) that has become purely decorative in many articles of clothing and footware.</p><p>The confusion began because in some dialects &#039;knoop&#039; is &#039;knop&#039;. But that doesn&#039;t change its use, as a button.</p><p>So it is a Zeeland button, whichever way you look at it. Or more correctly, a Dutch button, because it was used in many parts of the country.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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