EUROPE
A Good Souce SHOPS WORLDWIDE
VISIT the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to see their textiles collection.
EMBSAY
Embsay Mills
(01756) 700946
Embsay Mills, (1.76 miles from Skipton), follow signs to Embsay Steam Railway.This shop has every sort of needlecraft thread, implement embroidery fabric, etc. etc. you
could want. There is also a very good selection of patchwork fabrics and tools. They also have a coffee shop there for light meals.
2)And I would like to add that Embsay Mills in North Yorkshire is a really
lovely patchwork and needlework shop with a good stock of books.
CRAYFORD KENT
David Evans World of Silk.
Bourne Road,
2 mins A2/M2, 10 mins. M25 Junc2 on A223.
(Access through Bourne Indutrial Park)
Tel: Crayford (01322 529198)
Silk Printers for over 150 years. Guided tours of workshop and museum - please book. Silk factory shop, ties, scarves, dressing gowns, gifts, etc. at Bargain prices. PLUS offcuts at 1 pound per metre and packets of silk patchwork pieces. Coffee shop for light lunches, cream teas, Kentish
wines.
2)A short walk from
the railway station. Well worth a visit, you can see them screen printing
in the traditional and computerised way plus they have a museum. You can
also buy silk patchwork pieces - a big bag for 2 pounds.50p, plus lots of
other goodies, some discounted.
LONDON
29 Haroldstone Rd. LONDON E 17
It is
open Tuesday to Saturday 10-5.
020 8521 2281
www.handweaversstudio.co.uk
This is an Aladdin's cave of threads and fleece. Fleeces from the usual
wool through silks, bamboo, soy bean and cotton. Threads of all shades and
sizes wool, cotton, silk etc.
This is a shop front and all items are sold by weight at very reasonable
prices.
. It is walking distance from Walthamstow tube
and if you go by car they offer the loan of a parking permit for the street.
HAMPTON COURT
Creative Quilting
3 Bridge Rd
Surrey KT8 9EU
Tel: 0181 941 7075
Birmingham
The Cotton Patch
1285 Stratford Rd,
Hall Green
Tel: 0121 702 2840
MISSENDEN
Rainbow Silks
CAMBRIDGE
Quilter's Cloth
253 Queen Ediths Way
Cambridge
+441223412404
www.quilterscloth.co.uk
This is a home based store set up by a single mother in Cambridge. she does
allow visitors and I was staying just around the corner so went off to
visit. her range of fabric is extensive and great and at the time of my
visit early June she was finalising her web site with updated products. I
have never seen some of her fabric and she also has a wonderful selection
of fabric sets
BRISTOL
Patchwork House
2, Charlecombe Court
Stoke Lane,
Westbury-on-Trym
Tel: 0117 907 9991
LEICESTER
Quilt Direct
Iliffe House
Iliffe Ave
Oadby
Tel: 0116 271 0033
DORKING
The Quilt Room
20 West St
Surrey RH4 18L
Tel: 01306 877307
EPSOM
Piecemakers
13 Manor Green Rd
Surrey
Tel: 01372 743161
HAILSHAM
Country Crafts
St Mary's Walk
East Sussex
LONGNOR
Heirs & Graces
The Old Chapel
Buxton Rd
Nr Buxton
St Pierre Market
But if you really want to see french fabric, not special for quilting, go to St Pierre Market, in Montmartre, subway station is 'Blanche' on lane n� 6. Out of the subway, just go to the Sacr� Coeur (white church in Montmartre) and you'll see the Market, it's only fabrics, fabrics, on our levels, the hugest one in Paris, and really fun to visit. BUT, vendors won't speak english there, I'm afraid.
Sophie Campbell Patchworks
19 Rue Godot de Mauroy
This is near Boulevard Haussman.
Closest metro: Havre-Caumartin.
The buildings are well and clearly numbered in this street. This shop is in a courtyard, so keep your eyes open! Sells American fabric, different to Le Rouvray. Prices similar to Oz.
Tuscany has excellent linen fabrics, very heavy with patterns woven into the
fabric, some are natural, some coloured.... but all of them are too heavy for
making quilts.... There are many shops that sell these fabrics. One in almost
every little town in Tuscany. The nicest ones are in Siena and Montalcino.
I was a bit disappointed that my mum bought lots of linen fabric for
tablecloths and I could not find anything suitable for patchwork.... until I
came to the town of Arezzo!
AREZZO
There are two lovely places there, in a little
side street there is a shop called
La Favola Mia
(via Cavour 65)
which is
full of lovely things- country style. 8 bolts of patchwork fabric from the US
in cute patterns and lots of ceramic things- I found a china thimble with a
tiny picture of a sheep and a little village.... And a lovely quilt panel for
a cot quilt too.... they wrap presents beautifully- the package was almost
too nice to open!
"Busatti"
And then- the dream shop. In the big shopping street of Arezzo, Corsa Italia,
..... looks really good with a stone arch entrance and inside bolts
and bolts of fabric!
At first I was a bit disappointed- again it looked like
there was only linen there.... but then- cotton prints! Italian fabric made
in Milano.... and the prints were so nice! I could have bought them all but
limited myself to three- the first has Italian mountain flowers, like old
pharmacy drawings, the second has renaissance architecture and the last one
looks a bit like William Morris fabrics, ornamental and so nice.... I did not
even look at price or width of fabric... Just got one meter of each.... NIce
surprise, they were Lit. 25000 (around $25/m) but the big surprise came when
I opened them out at home- they were not the usual 1.15m wide fabrics but
2.80m! I could not believe it!!! :-)
VENICE
HOME SWEET HOME
Via I Maggio, 86
30123 Concordia Sagittaria (VE)
tel. 0421.394356
www.hshpatchwork.
It is run by 2 sisters. They have a friend who is Australian I was lucky that she was able to meet up with me for a chat.
