Local Shops This is a list of useful places to look for equipment and supplies. Still under construction; if you have found a good place which should be in this list please mail Guntram.

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B.J. Oberholzer Wide assortment of metal casting equipment and supplies, jewellery tools and wax, beads.	Atlantic House 16 Corporation Street	021 461 7370
Bead Shop Beads of all sorts, some semiprecious stones.	Long Street (top end)
Cape Watchmakers Precision tools and metal casting equipment.	Wale Street Chambers 33 Church Street	021 424 8261
Electec Pewter. Speak to Neville.		021 551 6675
Fabric City The widest and often most affordable range of fabric and accessories: 1. Floor - good quality fabrics including wide colour range of inexpensive cotton. 2. Floor - silk, brocade, eveningwear fabrics and trims 3. Floor - various calico and also very wide tablecloth material 4. Floor - trims, buttons, embroidery threads, beads, fabric markers, bias binding	32 Sir Lowry Road	021 462 1286/7
Oriental Plaza 1. TCT - great range of buttons, zips, cotton threads and trimmings, sometimes good specials on velvet, etc. 2. Spice shop at the back left groundfloor corner. This is the only place I know that sells cardamom, a must-have ingredient for Lebkuchen.	Sir Lowry Road, opposite Good Hope Centre
Orion Needlework stuff, general haberdashery.	Woodburn Crescent, Cape Town	021 423 9782
Pot Elizabeth Pottery shop - majolica white (Swan Lake) and clear (Spectre) glaze and stains. Also lustres (bronze, pewter, gold). They have slip cast plates, bowls and goblets. You can either buy them fully painted or paint them yourself and Pot Elizabeth will fire the items for you at an extra 50% of the cost of the item. They also stock local underglazes, but I have been advised to rather buy the imported ones, as the local made glazes seem to blister - which when you have laboured very hard with your design is a very frustrating thing to have happen to you.	Kloofnek Road	021 424 5401
S.A. Fine Worsted The factory shop of woolen fabric is opposite the entrance. You can buy the fabric by the metre; very reasonably priced.	68 7th Avenue Maitland
Thread Needle Street Really good selection of needlework supplies (Aida fabric, silk thread, books).	Glebe Street, Rondebosch	021 686 6817
Woodheads Leather supplies, including vegetable tanned; dyes, buckles, tools etc.	29 Caledon Street	021 461 7185