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Links

Links to some of our suppliers, fabric and leather suppliers , a selection of furniture and antique links and some miscellaneous links :

Finishing products :

Smith & Rodger (French polishes and finishing materials)

Fiddes (waxes and finishing materials)

Liberon (finishing materials and sundries)

Tools :

Thomas Flinn & Co.

Axminster

Rutlands

Workshop Heaven

Toolnut

Toolpost

H Webber (upholstery tools)

CS Osborne (upholstery tools)

The Tool Box Scotland (our local tool shop)

Murray's Tools (another local tool shop)

Upholstery and caning supplies :

Brown and Cook (upholstery supplies)

Glover Bros. (upholstery supplies)

Seat Weaving Supplies

The Cane Store

Fabric and leather suppliers :

Andrew Muirhead & Son (leather)

Futura (leather)

Linwood Fabric

Fabric Mills

Bute Fabrics

Mandors Fabric (Edinburgh and Glasgow stores)

Laura Ashley

Kvadrat

Romo

GP & J Baker

Vanessa Arbuthnott

Designers Guild

Mulberry Home

Morris & Co.

Harlequin Harris

Sanderson

Colefax and Fowler

Jane Churchill

Anta

Wemyss

Jim Dickens

Ross Fabrics

Timber and veneers :

Aitken & Howard

Scottish Wood

Falkirk Wood

Timberline

Lanarkshire Hardwoods

InterestingTimbers

Vale Veneers

Hardware :

Armac (Manufacturers of brass cabinet fittings and architectural hardware)

Martin (Handles, pulls, locks, catches, hinges and knobs for the kitchen and furniture Trade)

Edina Lock and Key Co. (Local Edinburgh shop selling architectural ironmongery and brassware)

Horton Brasses

J. Shiner (Architechtural ironmongery)

Optimum Brasses (Reproduction brass hardware)

Abbey Brass Company (Fittings in hand forged iron, wood, brass and porcelain)

Furniture and antique links :

Millers Antiques Guide

History of furniture timeline

Antiques Atlas

Antiques Are Green

Edinburgh Antiques

SellingAntiques.co.uk

Tom Thackray Windsor chair maker

National Museums of Scotland (One of our favourite chairs)

Ben Law, the woodsman with the beautiful home

Puji (contemporary furniture made from reclaimed teak)

The Furniture Re-use Network

Miscellaneous links :

LibriVox.org (public domain audio books read by volunteers)

freegle.org

Old pictures of Edinburgh

Transport Direct (journey planner)

Edinburgh CycleStreets.net (cycle journey planner)

Archive.org (The Internet Archive)

The two story camper van from Japan

Mobile Phone Exchange (recycle old mobile phones and get money for them too!)