FABRIC STORES, HABERDASHERIES AND COSTUME JEWELERY in Rome

 The Jewish ghetto is the area to find many fabric and notions shops along the tiny streets. Many of the shops went out of business in the last decade, but you can still find some of the best ones, with the same old wood cabinets full of wonders.

To name a few:
-Fratelli Bassetti Tessuti on Via Vittorio Emanuael II, 73 is one of Rome’s largest fabric stores and also the fabric source for many Italian clothing and interior designers. Opened in 1954 by two brothers, the store is on two floors with double-height ceilings. It holds 200,000 fabrics in any color, shade and texture, distributed in a labyrinth of rooms and layers of rolls of fabric.
-Azienda Tessile Romana on Via San Nicola dei Cesarini, 13, right on one side of Largo di
Torre Argentina that hosts four Roman temples and the remains of the Theater of
Pompey.
-Paganini on Via d’Aracoeli, 21, specializes mostly in fabric for interior design, ulphostery and beddings, other kinds of fabric can also easily be found.

-Merceria Branciforte, carries an incredible variety of threads, cords, ribbons, lace and buttons, in a completely full little shop on Piazza Paganica, 12 Tel. 06-6865271
-Merceria Petroselli also small with beautiful cabinets full of cords and ribbons, in Via di Torre Argentina, 14, tel. 06-6893365
-Passamaneria Crocianelli, Via dei Prefetti, 37-40. Tel. 06-6873592. This is away from the Jewish ghetto, but near the Parliament. It is an old-fashioned, two-room shop for everything you might need for renovating your sofa, armchair and curtains, the possibilities are endless, beginning with an amazing selection of cords, tassels and fringes.
- ALFIS srl: buttons, feathers, beads, feathers, flowers, zippers fabric and more in LG. GINNASI 6
Tel. 06 68801970

-"Novità" is one of the most renowned costume jewellery in Rome: beads, swarowsky, rings, stones, closures, chains, buttons, threads and everything you may need about jewels! In Via Sora, almost at the crossroads with Corso Vittorio Emanuele.