A SMALL shop has got it all sewn up when it comes to providing buttons for big blockbuster movies.

Hollywood film directors knew they could rely on Duttons for Buttons, in Harrogate, for supplies for their latest work Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Actors in the film, which stars Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush and Orlando Bloom, needed outlandish buttons on their swashbuckling pirate costumes.

Shop manageress Michelle Horton went to see the film, which has had rave reviews, and said: "It was nice to know that our buttons were being seen so widely.

"They looked very good and I enjoyed the film too."

The shop, in Oxford Street, is owned by Drusilla White, whose late father Abe Goodman founded the button business.

Previously Duttons, which is stocked from floor to ceiling with thousands of buttons for every occasion, had supplied buttons for Evita, starring Madonna.

Other notable orders have come from the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, as well as requests for specialist buttons for television productions.

The company also runs an international mail order business.

Duttons was established in Harrogate's Lowther Arcade 50 years ago before moving to its present site near Harrogate Theatre.