Cath Kidston started her now world famous company ten years ago in a small shop in London’s Notting Hill, selling second-hand furniture and vintage fabrics. She soon began to design her own fabric and wallpaper, creating signature floral prints which have come to stand for her unique look. On her colourful website you'll find some really pretty and different bedlinen and bedspreads, cosmetic bags, towels and robes, notebooks, photo albums and lots of really pretty gift ideas.

Heals offers contemporary styling and reasonable prices for every room in your house, from major furniture items such as beds and sofas right through to lighting, small accessories, bed linen, towels and toiletries. Click through to their clear website and pay a visit to the room of your choice or check out their garden furniture and accessories and storage solutions. They also have a wedding list service, interior design, kitchen planning and much more.

The Volga Linen Company is a family run, British company that sells an exquisite collection of pure linen from Russia. The collection consists of table linen, bed linen, ready to hang curtains and a children’s range and accessories. They produce plain weaves, fabric with drawn thread work embroidery, damasks, and richly coloured paisleys and this is one of those websites where you'll find it really hard to leave without buying something. Take a look at their new clothes collection too.

Tricia Guild always offers an eclectic range of beautiful things, and although the wonderful range of fabrics is always in evidence, now you’ll find bedlinens, colourful towels, unique home fragrance and gorgeous blankets and cushions available in her shops and online store as well. There are neutral colours here but the speciality is as always the pretty greens, blues and deep pinks that she’s famous for. There are online stores for the UK and US and stockists worldwide.

This is a family run business offering a lovely selection of fabrics, wallpapers, gifts and home accessories from brands such as Mulberry, GP and J Baker, Harlequin and Fired Earth. The selection of mouthwatering gift ideas includes Mulberry candles, pot pourrie, cushions and throws and James Brindley's range of faux fur (think leopard, llama, bear and cheetah) throws, cushions and hot water bottle covers. Resist if you can. You can request free samples of fabrics to help you finalise your choice and then order using their online system. They ship Worldwide

MacCulloch and Wallis have specialised in supplying the fashion trade with trimmings and fabrics since 1902. Now you can order directly from them on their colourful website and choose from a wonderful selection of ribbons, threads and fabrics both for furnishing and dressmaking plus beautiful extras such as silk and velvet roses, feather boas and star sequins. Buy your Christmas ribbons here as well.

If you're someone who likes to surround themselves with beautiful cushions you should definitely have a browse round this website, where there's an amazing choice including tapestry, quilted, velvet, woven and faux fur plus plaids, animal and wildlife designs. They also offer wallhangings, throws, draught excluders and tapestry bags.

Oka is a really beautifully designed and photographed website where you'll find some inspirational ideas for your home. Browse through their roomsets and pick out the individual items that would enhance your existing decor, or go for broke and buy them all. From throws, cushions, quilts and rugs to porcelaine vases and elegant furniture there's a wealth of items to choose from. Most items will be delivered within 14 days although you need to allow 28 days for heavier items.

There aren’t a great number of places you can buy curtains online, mainly because it’s difficult to show them well, however here they’ve managed it. You first first need to select your colour scheme then the specific fabric, which they have available in different sizes. Click on the one you choose and you’ll see what it looks like made up. It’s a simple, clever and easy to use system. The range isn’t huge but what’s there is excellent and you can order valances, cushion covers and fabrics as well.

This is a beautifully designed website from a company offering you the opportunity to order their designer curtain and upholstery fabrics online. The extensive range includes Linen Union, vintage style florals, patchworks, nursery fabrics, Tiole fabrics plus their range of Checks and Stripes. You can order samples first and then if there's no one in your area to make up your curtains for you they'll do that too. Samples are expensive but the price is refunded when you order.

Vanessa Arbuthnot offers really pretty traditional fabrics inspired by Italy and rural English landscapes with names such as Stripe and Wiggle, Cockerel and Spot and Fern and Dragonfly. In tune with these there's also some lovely pottery which you have to order by phone. If you live in the country and like mixing and matching simple attractive designs you may well find something here.

The Linen Works specialises in products from Northern Europe made from mainly natural materials. You'll find olivewood utensils, lightweight enamelware from Austria, super soft pure virgin wool rugs and throws from Germany and eiderdowns from France. New for autumn is their own range of bolsters, tablecloths and oilcloths produced from their French fabric collection. This is a beautifully and simply laid out website and very easy to get round.

There's a lot to see at the Cotton Mill, as you could easily be sidetracked by the duvets and covers, throws and cushions, although there isn't necessarily a huge choice in each area. Where the range is large, however, is in Curtains. So click there, choose your colour scheme and then the fabric and size. There's a guide to how to measure your window for ready made curtains and there's a selection of Sanderson fabrics to choose from as well.

The famous ribbon and trimmings emporium based in Marylebone Lane, London, is now online. Click through to the product section of their website to choose from grosgrain, organdie, wire edged, velvet and gingham ribbons plus beaded strands feathers and much more. There's so much here that you'd be well advised to have a good idea of what you're looking for before you start or you may well get lost.

There's aren't many places you can clearly see ranges of fabrics online but thankfully this is one of them with a small but pretty collection. Jean Monro offers traditional English handblocked chintzes designed and produced from archive material. On the site you can see a wide selection using the search facility or just browsing and put your sample requests into your basket (these are non returnable). Once you've chosen your pattern they'll tell you the name of your nearest stockist.

This is an excellent interiors website offering a bespoke service for curtains where you can order fabric samples, then when you've made your choice use their guide to decide on the heading style and lining and input your measurements. They also offer high quality tie-backs and posts, fabrics by the metre, blinds, poles, valances, headboards and quilts. Unlike most interiors websites where your only choice is to buy ready made curtains here everything is created specially for you and customised as you prefer with trimmings and beading.

Here you can buy fabric for children's furnishings by the metre or as ready cut kits for curtains, cot bedding, and pillow cases. You can also order linings, header tape, voile and other accessories and order a selection of four samples which they'll send you free of charge. There's a wide selection of delightful fabrics for children with themes such as jungle/animals, appliqued and embroidered fabrics, fairytale, cars and helicopters, outer space, soldiers and teddies.

Chelsea Textiles faithfully re-creates antique fabrics, cushion designs and furnishing accessories with patterns such as embroidered vines, Indo China, and Heather Voile for the fabrics, and animals (mainly dogs and cats) and insects (butterflies, dragonflies and bees) for the embroidered cushions and bags alongside gorgeous roses, florals and vines. You do have to call them or e-mail to order but if you're looking for a special fabric or gift you should have a look here.

This is a very easy to get round home accessory and gifts website where you'll find one of the prettiest selections of traditional style cushions, Venetian glass mirrors, unusual vases and candle holders (such as the monkey nuts candle holder pictured) and Chinese influenced porcelain. This is mainly a place to find gifts, the choice isn't enormous but what is there is very different and attractive. They deliver only within the UK.

This is a pretty website run by a family business offering lovely traditional Welsh fabrics which they design and print using the latest digital technology. You can buy the fabrics themselves by the metre, have them make up curtains and blinds for you using their online measuring calculator or buy cushions, bags and boxfiles. Your order can take up to ten days to arrive (longer for curtains and blinds) and they're happy to ship to you anywhere in the world. Take a look at their hotel website and you’ll see how the fabrics look in place but don’t start there or you’ll never escape, it looks so enticing.

Fabricsandpapers.com is a new online shop where you can buy thousands of fabrics and wallpapers for upholstery, curtains, bedspreads and cushions from leading British and European design houses. Use their design board to see various schemes for different types of room that they've put together and if you order everything they've chosen you'll get a 20% discount! Lovely fabrics for children in particular and a lighting range as well.

This is a fabrics and interiors accessory website offering blinds, ready made curtains and tie backs plus an unexpectedly wide range of high quality fabrics, linings and trimmings. You'll also find home accessories such as bedspreads, duvet covers and throws, cushions and cushion pads (for those places where they only sell you the covers) and an exceptional range of all hangings. They offer a personal service (by email) if you want some help with your decor and they'll also try and source fabrics for you that are not included on their site.