GENUINE BRITISH MADE PRODUCTS | WORLDWIDE SHIPPING
The British Bidder – Plastic Free Bidding Box
WE'VE designed and developed this exclusive plastic free bidding box and we're rather proud of it! No Plastic Please! The British Bidder® is an exclusive product to us, that we've…
Offcuts of Baize – Perfect for Crafters
AS you may know, we make all our own Playing Card Table cloths. In making these cloths we have plenty of offcuts of baize going spare.
(more…)
Top 5 Bridge Books – Our Top Sellers
BOOKS are a great way to get to grips with some of the complex aspects of the game. We stock a wide variety on our online shop and we thought we’d share the top 5 bridge books our customers buy for themselves or for gifts.
(more…)
8 Ways to Improve Your Bridge Memory
BRIDGE is a complicated and intriguing card game, for which having a good memory is the secret to success. Looking for ways to improve your Bridge memory is a good idea considering the amount the average Bridge player has to remember. Firstly the rules of the game are expansive, then there’s the rather important matter of remembering your agreed bidding strategies with your partner and to top it off one has to be able to recognise, interpret and remember the bidding strategies of your opponents!
So we decided to curate 8 ways to improve your Bridge memory from the low tech to high tech.
10 Gift Ideas for Card Players This Christmas
AS a premium UK outlet for Bridge aficionados and card players alike, we decided to create a top 10 gift ideas for card players, to inspire you.
We have been steadily carving out a niche based around exclusive and high quality card gaming equipment. Everything we stock we source from the best manufacturers we can find and increasingly, we are sourcing as many of our products as possible from within the UK. Furthermore we are slowly but surely building up own brand lines, which are made by us exclusively in our workshop in Devizes.
Below are our top 10 gift ideas for card players this Christmas, starting with the cheapest and moving through to the most decadent!
(more…)Luxury Velvet – A Little Bit of History
The History of Velvet
Early Velvets
Simon has been making beautiful bridge cloths from luxury velvet for over quarter of a century. Long prized as a luxurious fabric, the roots of velvet span as far back as 2000BC. First made in Egypt, this luxury fabric was so precious and highly prized that it was only available to royalty and the fabulously wealthy. (more…)
Join us for Bridge with Shaw Taylor
JOIN us for Bridge with Shaw Taylor is a must for Bridge players everywhere. From enthusiasts to absolute beginners, this three hour video, based on the highly successful television series…
Swap Cards and the Melbourne Playing Card Collectors
The Beginnings of the Melbourne Playing Card Collectors (MPCC)
By Hilary Oates of the Melbourne Playing Card Collectors, Australia (MPCC)
Before we look at the beginnings of the MPCC we need to first look at the Beginnings of Card Collecting and Swap Cards.
Hilda Hulsbergen our immediate past President for 25+years and now Public Officer of the MPCC remembers how Card collecting had been
(more…)
Top 5 Assistive Products for Playing Card Games
Great Products to Help You Keep Playing Card Games
If life has dealt you a bad hand, these 5 assistive products for playing card games, will help you keep playing the games you love.
An estimated 220 million people play bridge worldwide, and for many (more…)
Top 10 Uses for Non-Slip Matting
Do you use non-slip matting around the home?
I know, I know, it sounds so utilitarian and uninteresting. But take my word for it, once you start using it, you’ll find it has a multitude of uses for non-slip matting and you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it! (more…)
