What is this thing called?

[SpawnChorus]

I'm wanting to make a drawstring bag, and need some of these things.

Can anyone tell me what it's called? Is it an eyelet? Where can I buy one? And do I need a machine for punching it into the fabric?

Thanks!

Yes, they're eyelets. You need a tool that's like a fat pencil and you have to whack it with a hammer to set them. Or the tool comes like a pair of pliers. They're eyelet setters.

I don't know where you get big eyelets from though.

OK - I think I've answered my own questions. It is an eyelet and I can buy them with the gadget on ebay.

Next question - will they withstand regular washing? Will the brass coloured ones do, or should I try to find erm...stainless steel ones or summat? [hopelessly out of depth]

Thanks Soupy (x-posts, sorry!)

Um... they should be fine I would have thought... [vague mumbling]

I've made drawstring bags without them though, just a sewn channel for the string and a gap in the seam for the ends to come through.

Yes, I could go down that route. But I really wanted to make one of those circular bags, iykwim.

Big circle of fabric, several eyelets round the circumference, cord loops through the eyelets and it pulls together into a bag shape like this .

That's my skill level