Shop, van and mail-order. Very helpful. AvG can supply cloth, dyes, textile paints, gel mediums, discharge paste, screens, squeegees, chemicals, tools and a huge variety of art and craft materials and items.

A huge warehouse of general art supplies. Atlantis have a wide range of affordable pre-stretched canvas and will also make to order. Stockists of Golden Matte Medium (as used for the paper lamination process).

An excellent quilting and fabric shop that also mail orders. Long-arm quilting service and many, many classes.

Shop and mail order. Fibrecrafts can supply cloth, dyes, textile paints, discharge media, chemicals (Urea etc.) screens, squeegees, screen mesh and a large variety of fibre-related products and supplies.

A German-based company with a distribution centre in the UK. Mail order, good prices.

An excellent art supplies store who are happy to mail order. Excellent range of pre-stretched canvas at good prices.

Established in 1984, Kraft Kolour stocks a huge range of materials for textile artists. One of our Australian distributors for our books.

Bulk/volume supplies, although some items such as dyes are available from 100gm upwards. Dyes, chemicals such as Urea, Soda Ash, Ludigol/Resist Salt L, Manutex RS/Sodium Alginate etc. Kemtex do not sell cloth or tools such as screens.

Based in Germany, this is an excellent outlet. Whilst much of the on-line shop is in German, the pictures are clear and Guenther speaks excellent English – so just email him with your requirements and he’ll sort you out.

Suppliers of metal leaf (pure gold, silver, copper and aluminium) and ‘schlag’/imitation leaf. Good range of glues, including Berol Marvin Medium, a high-quality permanent PVA that we use when applying metal leaf to cloth.

Based in Munich, Germany, this is an excellent shop that supplies far more than simply quilting stuff. Christine has pretty good English and is happy to mail order to the UK.

Enormous range of yarns by the cone.

Claire Higgott runs this mail-order thermofax service. She will turn your designs into screens ready for you to print finely detailed or textural marks onto cloth or paper. You simply send photocopies or email your artwork and she does the rest. Email Claire for details of screen sizes and prices.

Mail order. An enormous range of cloth, with many prepared for dyeing (PDF). Ring and ask for a brochure. Sample book available to purchase and samples sent on request.

Embroidery supplies, hand-dyes and commercial threads, needles, 150cm wide acrylic felt (for covering print boards) and much, much more.

Basic cottons and linens, plus odd-balls such as Nun’s veiling!

A huge arts and crafts mail order company. Look at the web site and drool.

Fantastic selection of dyes, paints, chemicals, tools and related products.

Manufacturers of Jacquard dyes, discharge paste, textile paints and other media. Great selection of cloth.

As the name suggests, a great deal is here for embroiderers but check the site out as it offers more than threads!

Karina van Vught is based in the Netherlands and supplies a wide range of textile related products.

Organisers of the Knitting & Stitching Shows, the Festival of Quilts and Stitch. Jan King and Andrew Salmon are truly supportive of textiles.

Selvedge is an independent, 100-page full colour magazine published six times a year. The magazine is image led and has an uncompromising design.

The Crafts Council promotes the contemporary crafts in UK. It is an independent organisation funded by Arts Council England and provides services to craftspeople and the public.

The Embroiderers' Guild has over 25,000 Members and subscribers throughout the UK and abroad, 238 Branches and 95 Young Embroiderers Groups.

Run by Beatrijs Sterk, this is a network of European textile people – a heady and eclectic mix. ETN also publishes a quarterly magazine – Textile Forum.

This is the national organisation representing quiltmakers throughout the British Isles.

An excellent association and a brilliant magazine. Worth becoming a member.

What the name describes! The Textile Directory is a comprehensive resource for anyone searching for people, places or products related to textiles in art, craft, fashion and interiors.