Artboxdirect offers discount art supplies, providing artists with a wide range of art materials from Winsor & Newton and Daler Rowney. There are good discounts off the prices of all paints and brushes, pastels, sets, pads and cases. It’s best if you already know which colours you want to order although you can download the full colour charts for each range of paints should you need to.

Started in 1992, Hesketh Potters Supplies offers a wide range of clays, raw materials, glazes and tools and its customers include schools and hospitals, teaching studios and professional and hobby potters.

Here are grown-up artist’s materials for the grown-up artist. They carry a huge range and offer a full advisory service and quick delivery; you can buy acrylics, art boards, glass paints and palettes, gold and silver leaf, papers cards and envelopes, everything for printmaking plus storage and packaging (and loads more). You can also buy gift vouchers here for the artist in your life or choose from their suggestions.

Staedtler, Derwent, Sennelier and Windsor and Newton are just a few of the brands here, on this website offering a full range of artist’s materials including easels, paints (oil, acrylic or watercolour), paper and board, canvasses, brushes and folios. They also have a well stocked crafts section with calligraphy, candle making, glass painting, needlecraft and stenciling so there’s something for everyone here and some very good gift ideas too.

The Stencil Library is generally accepted as being one of the world's leading stencil design companies and here you'll find over 3,500 different designs which you can order online, including traditional, modern, Indian, Shaker and children’s designs, plus brushes, paint, tools for gilding and decoupage and a wide range of general stencilling supplies. This site is a must if you're thinking of stencilling anything, anywhere.

Discover a wonderful treasure trove of artists and craft supplies, from paints, pencils, brushes and inks, to clay, craft paper and adhesives plus fabric art and needlecraft equipment plus accessories including frames, tapestry wools, stranded cotton and fantasy threads. This is not one of the most highly sophisticated websites but it’s easy to get round and quick to order from. Expect a high level of service and speedy delivery and call them if you need advice.

This is quite a confusing site to look at probably because the range is so big but if you’re in the market for a new or second hand musical instrument you must look here, as the prices can be very good. The range is amazing and it’s very helpful that they have a manufacturer index offering almost 100 brands so you can go straight to the product you’re looking for. They also offer online live support (which you may well need) and Worldwide delivery for just about everything.

This is a lovely, clear and easy to use website, where you can choose from a fantastic selection of musical instruments, from clarinets to grand pianos, acoustic and electric guitars together with sheet music and a repair service. The instruments are discounted (check the price with your local supplier and/or a price comparison website to make sure) but some of the prices look excellent. Prices for UK shipping are supplied online but you need to call them for overseas.

Once you arrive at this website you need to choose to begin with whether you want to go to the piano and orchestral instrument department where you’ll find an excellent range including sheet music, or through to rock and hi tech, which offers electric and acoustic guitars, microphones, mixers, synthesizers and the like. It’s an extremely clear and well laid out website, all prices and delivery times are very clearly shown and they carry a full range of accessories

This is a lovely clear and modern website offering tapestry cushion sets by designers such as Elizabeth Bradley, Isolbel Hunt and Julia Bradley. Once you click through to your designer of choice they’ll tell you all about her and show you the range then for each design there are exact details. This is really a website for those who already know how to do needlepoint but the choice is superb and they’ll ship Worldwide.