Please consider joining either or both of these excellent organisations. They are charities dedicated to the promotion of scholarship in dress and each publishes an annual journal full of useful costume information: :

www.costumesociety.org.uk     www.costumesocietyamerica.com

www.groups.yahoo.com/group/tudor_tailor_reader (This group is not an official Tudor Tailor group but has been set up by an enthusiastic reader and focuses on discussing the sources and patterns included in the book.)

U.K. Suppliers

Many suppliers of specialist materials will only deal with trade orders. Those listed below are happy to deal with the public and most can provide a mail order service. Alternatively regular re-enactor’s markets are held in the U.K where many smaller individual tradespeople sell their goods direct to the public. For further details visit www.livinghistory.com or www.reenactorsmarket.co.uk

Abimelech Hainsworth www.abimelech.co.uk Range of high quality wools including meltons, doeskins and worsteds. Whaleys (Bradford) LTD. www.whaleys-bradford.ltd.uk Large range of basic materials including linen, canvas, buckram, wool and silk. Full set of swatches costs £26.00 Historical Managment Associates www.stuart-hmaltd.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Range of fabrics for the common people spun and woven to historical specifications Barnett Lawson (trimmings) Ltd www.bltrimmings.com Huge selection of trims, ribbons, tassels, feathers etc. The Cane Store www.canestore.co.uk 8mm centre cane suitable for farthingale hoops, 6mm suitable for sleeve hoops, 1/4” chair cane suitable for boning bodies Macculloch & Wallis www.macculloch-wallis.co.uk Boning, threads, millinery wire, buckram, domet Steve Millingham Pewter Replicas www.pewterreplicas.com Excellent range of Tudor jewellry, buttons and accessories Gina Barrett www.et-tu.com/ginab High quality handmade silk wares including laces, tassles, thread buttons and tablet

Plantagenet Shoes www.plantagenetshoes.freeserve.co.uk KM Garlick -- Shoemaker www.kmgarlick-shoemaker.co.uk Renaissance Dyeing www.renaissancedyeing.com Naturally dyed threads and yarns, woad dyed threads and natural dye extracts. Karl Robinson Leatherworker 9a Spur Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, TW7 5BD Tel: 0208 560 3048 www.karlrobinson.co.uk Excellent leather goods including clothing, belts, purses, gloves and books Keith Lyon Leather Skins 146 Balfour Road, Northampton NN2 6JP Tel: 01604-717349 Quartermasterie The Chatelaine Russetts, 7 Smallworth Common Garboldisham, Norfolk, IP22 2QW Tel: 01953 681441 email: thechatelaine@tesco.net Haberdashery & silks, including damask and satin Trade Eighty 63-65 Riding House Street, London W1W 7EH Tel : 44-(0)20-7637 5188 Fax : 44-(0)20-7637 5187 info@trade80silks.co.uk Good range of silk fabrics Peter Crossman http://groups.msn.com/crossmancrafts period pins, needles, thimbles, cases and handmade wooden busks. Starch Supplies Gelli, Nr Oakford, Aberaeron, Ceredigion, SA47 OPU www.starchsupplies.co.uk Hot and cold water starch suitable for ruffs, collars etc.

U.S. Suppliers

With thanks to Drea Leed (www.costume.dm.net) for US list