BEAUTIFUL SILKS
Silk- and other naturals - wool, bamboo, linen, cotton are the ultimate experience for the textile artist

Now all your textile artistry needs are available from our convenient location
only 2 km from Melbourne's city centre

Want to mail order not sure how?

Call us to order 03-94197745 or email info@beautifulsilks.com

Use the internet more than the tram?

See something of how silk is made all over the world

Other businesses have as their core objective, the selling of products.
We have as our core objective, the entire textile experience.

Yes, we sell silk, dyes, yarns, garments and threads. We also host a series of masterclass workshops. And because we’re trading in the market, at our own retail site, at trade fairs, and amongst textile people who attend our classes and workshops, we have constant feedback which we use to improve our range of products and services. So not only can we sell you the raw materials for making your objects of desire, but we can also help you make your objects of desire -- and inspire you to do more.

We've taken the time when sourcing our stocks to ensure that they are made ethically and with our environment in mind. Do good and feel real when you buy from Beautiful Silks.

We stock

Woven silks - for silks suitable for nuno feltmaking, look at georgettes and chiffon.

Yarns - 30 plus types, Silks, Linen, Bamboo, Wool, Mohair, cotton silk mixes, handspun silks

Fibres - from cocoons to the finest AAA grade mulberry sliver

Threads - silk sewing & embroidery threads

Scarves - premade hand rolled and variety ready for dyeing. Hand dyed available wholesale direct to your business.

Garments - premade and sewn with silk ready for dyeing or custom dyed

Felting products We also sell Fibreworks hand dyed fine merino

Dyes and brushes - sensible water wise dyes easy to use in liquid form

Bags -Enviromentally friendly woven and sewn bags made from silk or cotton made to last

Catalogues Available $25.00 posted - ask for either Yarn or Fabric, swatches are enclosed.

Dyeing for the first time? Link to our demonstration video - more coming soon

Please enquire for wholesale prices.

Wholesale depends on quantity - the prices on the site are wholesale, special prices available for order of over 200mtr, conditions apply . Please advise us of your proposed minimum quantity when making your enquiry.We can then quote you correctly.

Wholesale purchases are subject to trading terms and conditions, up-front payment in some cases and minimum orders, usually of 1 kg of each fibre stock line or one roll of each fabric you wish to purchase for new customers. More relaxed trading terms may apply for established customers. The wholesale on these items are listed on this site. We reserve the right not to supply wholesale quantities or prices to competitors.

We sell only on our trading terms. Click here to view.

A proud Australian family tradition stretching back seven generations.

Michael Cashmore arrived in Melbourne in 1840, and his textile business -- Melbourne's first documented drapery -- was set up only 6 years after the town was founded. Cashmore's shop was Melbourne's first brick building, on the corner of Collins and Elizabeth Sts. Over 165 years later, his great-great-etc grandson Jon Yaakov Gorr and his wife Marion Hera Gorr carry on the family tradition on textiles. Their own business has a 50 year trading history, and it's carried on at their Fitzroy warehouse, where they've been, bar a short interruption, since 1993. Marion is assisted by a wonderful team of staff both in Melbourne and interstate. Their partner Peter Lucena is demonstrably Australasia's most senior and most experienced textiles dealer.

So when we say, If we don't stock it, we may be able to get it for you, we have the people and the experience to do it.