Jewelry Supplies and Equipment, Sampeng Lane, Bangkok

Hira Fashion Accessories at #244 Sampeng Lane has jewelry supplies and equipment at wholesale prices. They have clasps, beads, ribbon clamps, and silver and gold beads. Another place for jewelry crafters to find great supplies is Ribbon Center at #337 Sampeng Lane. They have hats, hair accessories, costume jewelry, and display cases and stands. These places are near the intersection of Ratchawong and Yaowarat Roads, in walking distance of the Grand China Princess Hotel.

Hira Fashion Accessories for jewelry making supplies

Ribbon Center has fashion belts, bags, hat displays, hair accessories, and jewelry

Wholesale watches in Chinatown, Bangkok

Grand China Princess Hotel before

Grand China Princess Hotel today. Stop in for a coffee at the ground floor cafe before heading out to shop

Ribbon Center – click and drag to view street-level imagery

Shopping for fabric and supplies in Bangkok

Sampeng Lane in Chinatown is the best place to buy 100% cotton fabric at good prices. If you buy 10 meters or more, you get the wholesale price. It can be 1 meter of 10 different fabrics. Minimum cut, 1 meter. No bargaining, because it’s not a tourist place, it’s a wholesale place. Prices range from 3 meters for 100 baht ($1 per yard) up to 250 baht per meter (about $8 per yard). You’ll find Fabric Center in addition to many other shops, see Sampeng Lane Map. Opening hours are from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm.

The following stores in Bangkok sell 100% cotton fabric. These are all branches of one company, and if you buy more than 2500 baht you get a 10% discount.

fabric from Fabric Center, Sampeng Lane

Fabric House: ground floor Central City, Bang Na, Bangkok tel. 02-361-0570

Fabric House: Central World 2nd floor near Isetan, tel. (662) 255-6152

Fabric House: ground floor Seacon Square, Srinakarin Rd., Bangkok tel. 02-721-8709

Fabric Fashion: 1st floor The Mall 3, Ramkamhaeng, Bangkok tel. 02-310-1020

Fabric Center: 277 Sampeng Lane, tel. 02-222-2460

Tang hua seng is a department store with two branches: one across the river in Thonburi and one on Khao San Road. They sell fabric, fat quarters, batting (white or black), thread, rotary cutters and blades, and craft supplies. I noticed ‘sa’ paper, burlap, terrycloth, and velcro in pink, red, green, black and white up to 4″ wide. Tang Hua Seng is on Nancy Chandler’s Map of Bangkok

Rotary cutters, blades and cutting mats are available at JCC stationery store on Narathiwat Road in the Silom area (business district).
And some small shops:

PINN SHOP mostly crafts and some quilting accessories, 500 shops nationwide including PINN Counter in The Emporium’s Stationery Section and one in Siam Paragon’s Handicraft Section. They have fusible web.

Pretty Quilt Shop in the Oasis shopping center, next to the entrance for the Nichada Thani neighborhood on Samakee Road in Nonthaburi