Vendors for Maker Supplies

These are vendor recommendations from our community for great shopping. We've divided them into shop areas, and distance from MAKE Roanoke or Online. Local is defined as under 90 minutes from the space, Road Trip is defined as 90 minutes-4 hours from the space. Add your favorite shops and vendors to the list here

• Design House Fabrics
  • Valley View Mall
• Schoolhouse Fabrics
  • 220 N Locust St, Floyd, VA 24091
• Bargain Barn Fabrics
  • 11600 W Lynchburg Salem Tpke Montvale, VA 24122
• Creative Therapy Care
  • 8249 Williamson Rd. Roanoke, VA 24019
  • An animal therapy farm, they sell alpaca fiber and yarn as well

• Threads Run Thru It Quilt Shop
  • 238 Main St., Brookneal, VA 24258
  • Huge selection of quilting fabric, sewing machine sales and service (Juki, Babylock), classes.
• Sew Classic Fabrics
  • 121 Carpenter Ln, Harrisonburg, VA 22801
  • Large selection of quilting fabric, classes, Janome sewing machines.
• Scrap RVA
  • 322 W Brookland Park Blvd, Richmond, VA 23222
  • SCRAP RVA is a creative reuse center in Richmond, so they have a little bit of everything - particularly fiber arts, painting, and bulk items (like medicine bottles, piano keys, postcards, etc.).
• Valley Creative Reuse
  • 1157 S High St, Harrisonburg, VA 22801
  • Creative reuse center in Harrisonburg
• Scrap Exchange
  • 2050 Chapel Hill Rd, Durham, NC 27707
  • The Scrap Exchange is a creative reuse center near Raleigh and they have a huge selection of items - from everything from metal and wood scraps, sewing machines, fabric, magazines, etc.
• Scrappy Elephant
  • 1745 Allied St, Suite C, Charlottesville VA 22903
  • Creative reuse center that has bulk fabric, arts and crafts supplies, and lots of donated art materials
• Reconsidered Goods
  • 4118 Spring Garden St, Greensboro NC 27407
  • lots of donated craft supplies and bulk fabric/yarn/thread

• DIYardage
• Fabric Wholesale Direct
• Online Fabric Store

• Best Buy
• PC Land
  • 1333 S Main St, Blacksburg, VA 24060

• Microcenter
  • Great selection of filaments, as well as project pieces and parts
  • 4744 South Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28217
  • 3089 Nutley St, Fairfax, VA 22031

• Siraya Tech
  • Many great, almost-engineering resins
• SUNLU
  • “ABS Like” is a great budget-friendly resin

• Printables
• Cults3d
• Thingiverse

• Hardware Imagination Tech
  • Cabinet supply store with a good selection of domestic hardwood, plywood, and cabinet hardware.
  • Let them know you’re there in the office area before going into the larger warehouse.
• Woodcraft

• Scrap Exchange
  • 2050 Chapel Hill Rd, Durham, NC 27707
  • The Scrap Exchange is a creative reuse center near Raleigh and they have a huge selection of items - from everything from metal and wood scraps, sewing machines, fabric, magazines, etc.

• Scrap Exchange
  • 2050 Chapel Hill Rd, Durham, NC 27707
  • The Scrap Exchange is a creative reuse center near Raleigh and they have a huge selection of items - from everything from metal and wood scraps, sewing machines, fabric, magazines, etc.

• McMaster-Carr
  • Amazing selection with complete specs, fast but usually expensive shipping

• H.C. Baker
  • 2740 Franklin Rd SW #3, Roanoke, VA 24014
• Lowe’s
  • 4224 Valley Ave, Roanoke, VA 24018
  • Will have basic hand tools, multimeters, and wire
• Home Depot
  • 4176 Franklin Rd, Roanoke, VA 24014
  • Will have basic hand tools, multimeters, and wire

• Microcenter
  • Good selection of electronics tools and components. Has Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, and hats/shields/projects to interface with them.
  • 4744 South Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28217
  • 3089 Nutley St, Fairfax, VA 22031

• Adafruit
  • Offers a lot of maker-friendly prototyping resources, as well as usage guides. Great for break-out boards and project inspiration.
• Sparkfun
  • Offers a lot of maker-friendly prototyping resources, as well as usage guides. Great for break-out boards and project inspiration.
• Digikey
  • Supplier of electronics components.
• Mouser
  • Like digikey, supplier of electronics components.
• LCSC
  • Overseas supplier of electronic components. Can be very cheap source for passives, but high shipping cost.
• OSHPark
  • Domestic PCB manufacturer
• PCBWay
  • PCB manufacturer
• JLCPCB
  • PCB manufacturer. Tends to be a little cheaper than PCBWay for >2-layer boards
• Grand Brass
  • Incredible resource for lamp and light fixture components of all types