Hi, Thinking about taking a river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest. We would be stopping in these following towns. Anyone know of quilt shops to stop and visit? Ones located near the river would be easiest to access on brief port stops. Amsterdam, Netherlands; Cologne, Rudesheim, Mainz, Wertheim, Wurzburg, Rothenberg, Nurenberg and Regensburg, Germany; Passau, Linz, Melk, Durnstein, Vienna, Austria; Bratislava, Slovakia; Budapest, Hungary
Hi,
Here's an answer from a super lurker ;-)
On this map you can find quiltshops in different countries :
Forget it for buying anything, but it has some ethnographic museums located quite close to the river on Zizkova street - one devoted to the Hungarian minority, another to the Carpathian Germans. Should be some good folk art fabric stuff in there. We were in Bratislava two weeks ago but those museums close on Tuesdays (weird, unlike anywhere else in Bratislava or indeed central Europe) so we didn't get in.
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Hi Jack, Are there no shops in Bratislava, no quality or just too expensive? To a quilter the buying is not the best part ... it is experiencing the fabric. Thanks for your reply, Signe
There is a "Patchwork" store in Rothenburg. I bought some German fabric there - it is about 60 inches wide rather than the 44 inches we are used to. They had a bunch of American fabric, with FAR higher prices than we pay in the states.
My DH was incredulous that I would buy fabric on our trip. After we left the Patchwork shop, we went to Kathe Wolfhartt to spend lots of money on Christmas ornaments :)
Kim
There's very little available, and what there is is mostly nasty polyester. You could try the folk art shop for some of the blue- print stuff, but to buy it by the metre or in larger pieces than a scarf you'd need to try elsewhere, like Brno in Moravia.
Really, there isn't a heck of a lot to do in Bratislava except get drunk. There are some big French tapestries in the museum in the castle but I didn't like them very much (the Durer exhibition there is much more interesting).
I'd bet there is a LOT in Budapest but you'd need to research it in advance. It isn't an easy place to find your way round unless you know enough Hungarian to find "fabric shop" in the yellow pages.
If your boat was carrying on down the Danube to Istanbul, there I
*could* be some help. It must have more fabric-related shops than the whole of Eastern Europe put together and you could spend a fortune in an afternoon.============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557
Howdy!
Since I'd looked this up & printed a map before we left home, we were able to walk to this shop w/in a half hour of getting to Rothenburg. I have my priorities.
R/Sandy -- who sent a hug & a kiss toward Germany yesterday after leaving World Market w/ some Nurnberg Lebkuchen (does not say "Elisen" but ---it's close!)
You've been to Rothenburg much more recently than I have, and it's almost sorta just down the road :-) Just ordered my annual Christmas box from Lebkuchen Schmidt (they have a website, they ship everywhere). There's a new variety in the catalog, supposed to be flour-free. All nuts maybe? BIL was just diagnosed with gluten allergies, so we want to check it out. You need to come over and see me again! Roberta in D
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