How to Sew Buttons on a Coat or Jacket. How to Sew a Button by Hand

If you need to sew buttons on coat or jackets use this video tutorial. The 15 photos how to sew a button on coat with professionally comments are here.
The video has tips for beginners how to sew button with leg. The lesson how to sew button video onto shirt is on my website in article "How to Sew a Button on a Shirt by Hand". The tutorial of sewing button by hand helps you attach the buttons on coat, onto jacket and on other clothes.
If your coat or jacket, jeans or skirt is going to lose its button this tutorial helps you to mend it with easy. To sew any button it you need have hand needle, thread, scissors and thimble. The thimble will protect your fingers from a needle prick when sewing a button by hand.
To sew on the large buttons you need to use medium sized of hand needles. Pull out from the spool about one meter of thread and fold it in half. Now this double-stranded thread must be inserted into the needle eye. Tie the all four ends with a knot. In the result you will have a thread folded in four.
In this step-by-step tutorial you will learn how to sew on by hand the button having a shank but it helps you sew on the flat button having two or four holes. For all sizes of buttons I recommend make the "leg". This is particularly important condition for big sizes buttons that are on outer clothing from leather etc.

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Thank you Sewway! My father purchased a lovely set of black tuxedo studs with small diamonds from Harrods in London in 1974, which included four beautiful waistcoat buttons. and we've been very unsure how to sew them to a tuxedo waistcoat. Your video was exactly what we needed!