Resources/Suppliers
250 Dundas St. W., Unit #8, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2Z5
wwwgsdye.com or 1-800-596-0550
G&S has an online catalogue and orders are shipped quickly. Do yourself a favour and ask for fabric samples.
If you are in TO, their brick and mortar store is a great little spot packed to the gunnels with products for dyeing, painting, screening, batiking, and marbling and they offer all kinds of assistance including instructional sheets both in store and online.
Carry a wide range of PFD fabric, Pebeo setacolor paints, MX reactive dyes, silk screening fabrics, pre wrapped silk screens (which are soooo nice in my opinion), and dyeing chemicals.
Great customer service.
And they also offer workshops if you are in the area.
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Curry's Art Store
1153 Queen West, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1J4
and other various Ontario locations including two more downtown Toronto
https://www.currys.com
Curry's is a go-to art store for OCAD (Art College of Ontario) students and they carry a wide range of supplies including airbrush supplies, fabric screening paint, Pebeo paints, calligraphy tools and stamp carving materials.
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NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art & Design) Art Supply Store
Granville Mall, Lower Level, 1874 Hollis Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
http://nscad.ca/en/home/shopsandservices/supplystore.aspx
Carry a wide range of art supplies including MX reactive dyes, FW Acrylic Inks and screening supplies.
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DeSerres
1546 Barrington Street, Hailfax, Nova Scotia
http://www.deserres.ca/en-ca/
Sort of a cross between a Michaels, a toy store and an art supply shop but they carry Pebeo paints and air brush supplies along with a mix of other useful tools for calligraphy, painting, etc.
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Maiwa Handprints Ltd.
6-1666 Johnston Street, Granville island, Vancouver, BC V6H 3S2
http://www.maiwa.com
Maiwa's have an incredible supply list - check it out! Fabrics, chemical dyes, paints, natural dyeing materials, resists, screening, batik..
Lots of instructions, podcasts, a blog and lots of great workshops if you are heading to the west coast.
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Aetna Felt Corp.
2401 W. Emaus Avenue, Allentown, PA 18103
http://catalog.aetnafelt.com/viewitems/-quality-wool-wool-blend-and-synthetic-craft-felts/thetic-craft-felts-high-quality-70-wool-craft-fe-2?&bc=1012|1135|1136|3001379
They sell 70% wool/30% rayon felt.
Chris uses it as batting and it shrinks to create texture.
They sometimes discontinue and discount a few colours and that's the time to buy!
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PRO Chemical and Dye
126 Shove Street, Fall River, Massachusetts 02724
1-800-2-BUY-DYE for orders and 1-508-676-3838 for technical advise
http://www.prochemicalanddye.com/home.php
For everything related to dyeing, surface design and more. Besides products, they offer instructions and amazing workshops!
ProChem ships to our region and as an added service (you need to arrange this with them beforehand) if you are attending a show in the US where they are a vendor, they will bring your pre-ordered materials to the show and you can pick them up there.
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Dharma Trading Co.
1-800-542-5227 US or Canada M-F 8 am to 5 pm PST
http://www.dharmatrading.com
Dharma and PRO Chem have been leading the way the last 45 years providing the tools and materials for dyers and surface designers.
Dharma has an extensive shipping rates page to help get your order to you either as quickly as possible, or as inexpensively as possible although you need to be aware brokerage fees may be added on. As well, some items are drop shipped directly from the manufacturer, such as Jacquard's FabriSign pre-treated fabric for inkjet printing.
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Lisa Call - Textile Paintings
http://lisacall.com/resources/pfd-fabric-for-sale/
Kaufman Pimatex PFD fabric is drop shipped, but only to US addresses - for those members with US mail boxes.
*Check and compare pricing before you order. When the Canadian dollar is low, you may find the same or a better deal this side of the border.
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Staples
Sells C&TPub Kraft-Tex paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWlGw5a26ww
http://www.staples.ca/kraft+tex+paper/directory_kraft-tex+paper_20051_1_20001?
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Dick Blick
http://www.dickblick.com
A US art supply store with competitive pricing on drawing materials.
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that bead lady
390 Davis Drive, Unit 103, Newmarket, Ontario, L3Y 7T8
905-954-1327
http://www.thatbeadlady.com
that bead lady - online bead store
http://www.thatbeadlady.com/bead-categories
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Shopping for beads in downtown Toronto??
Do yourself a favour and visit the Queen Street West district with five bead shops within blocks, sometimes feet, of each other. Check out Hi Beads, Arton Beads and Crafts, Bling Bling on Queen, The Beadery and The Crystal Bead Shop.
You will wonder why you ever bought a bead at Michaels..
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plain and simple home
http://plainandsimplehome.myshopify.com/collections/merchant-mills
Carry Merchant and Mills needles
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Clear Bags
http://www.clearbags.com
This was the supplier for the clear bags used for our travelling trunk show. They also sell matts and backing boards.
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Custom Thermofax Screens
Susan Purney Mark of Victoria, BC offers this service
http://fabricimagery.com/category/thermofax-products/
Holly has ordered from
http://smudgedtextilesstudio.com
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Testfabrics Inc. USA
415 Delaware Avenue, West Pittston, PA 18642 USA
1-570-603-0432
http://www.testfabrics.com
Carry a wide variety of fabrics for dyeing and printing.