Once I found an instruction on making buttons by weave wrapping wooden beads and tried it immediatley with different weave patterns: It is great!
I really like the weave wrapping of the buttons and find that the results are too beautiful to be used as buttons, I like them more as beads ;-)
Links:
Weave Wrapped Bead Buttons – scroll down to ‘To construct this type of button,…’
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘button’