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Resources => Your Favourite Suppliers => Topic started by: Ploshkin on June 21, 2018, 12:14:11 PM
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I placed an order yesterday at about midday, my buttons have arrived this morning.
They have a huge range of buttons and the ones I have received are good quality.
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I've always had really good service from them, too @Ploshkin . The only problem is the postage which can be high for just a few buttons. However this usually means I buy dozens to justify it :devil:
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Thing is, where I am £2.39 doesn't buy you much diesel. The nearest shop I have to buy buttons is 20 miles away so a 40 mile round trip which is the best part of a gallon and that is only a wool shop though it has a reasonable selection. There are also parking charges. I would tend to wait until I am going there for some other reason so can end up with unfinished garments hanging around for ages. Even then I may not find suitable buttons and have to go even further afield.
I did as you do and bought several sets of shirt buttons that I am likely to use.
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Oh I agree. No button shops round here for miles. And there's no way I'm driving miles to pay for parking at the nearest shopping mall for one or two buttons! I like 'nice' buttons too, so I would probably drive miles, pay a fortune and not find a button I liked.
I'm very, very bad at Internet shopping. By which I mean that I spend a fortune online. We're not particularly remote here but there's very little I want to buy locally and so I let the poor old postie earn his/her keep.
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I tend to get a lot of mine from ebay, the choice I can get round here is not very good and I like the vintage glass ones better than the modern plastic ones. Like you Ploshkin I have a long trip to get anywhere that sells them, Dutton's in York has the best choice I've come across in Yorkshire but it involves a 60 mile round trip and paying £8 for 2 hours parking.
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Duttons for Buttons do a kind of mail order:
http://www.duttonsforbuttons.co.uk/index.html
They have a vast range (I used to shop there when I lived in Yorkshire) and they obviously can't show them all, but they do a matching service and will send you samples - there's a downloadable order/specification form on this URL.
MacCulloch & Wallis also do mail order but I've never used the service myself. Might be worth investigating, though:
https://www.macculloch-wallis.co.uk/c/824/buttons
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For once we do actually have a good choice of buttons around here, with Calico Kate in Lampeter and Clare's Wools in Aberystwyth. (Those places are quite a distance apart, but we are somewhere in the middle!)