Bulk buying materials for making items to sell at craft fairs

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Where does everyone bulk buy the materials to make craft items please? I want the quality to be high like on NOTHS. I am looking for things like bag handles, metal components for key rings and zip pullers and blank cuff links and small mirrors . I have had a look and there seem to be a lot of sellers on Ebay but can you trust the quality?

I have sold hand sewn items like cushions make up bags and pencil cases at various craft fairs with a friend for many years but because of the current work situation she's decided to go on line so I am going to spend more time sewing to use up my fabric stash and build up stock and I want to expand my range.

I'm not expecting to make lots of money btw this is definitely a sideline and a hobby I enjoy but if I am going to give it a go I want to do it to as high a standard as I can. Any tips appreciated.

Anyone?

I've bought supplies from ebay and Amazon. Usually they're stopped from China so take a while to arrive but I've never been disappointed with the quality

Thank you very much husbandcallsmepickle

Sounds stupid but it didn't occur to me to look on Amazon for that sort of thing.

Anyone else?

Not specifically craft supplies, but I've ordered lots of things from Aliexpress which is similar to ebay. It all ships from China though. I think alibaba is the bulk/commercial version if you want large quantities of things.

Difficult to speculate on quality as they're all different suppliers. There is feedback though, like eBay.

Thank you Soupdragon that's very useful to know, I'll check them out.

Btw I have your flapjack recipe from way back and it's a firm favourite in our household!

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