Could someone help me in English? where to buy supplies

I really do hope i'm posting on the right forum. i have just relocated to Germany recently, and my German is not good at all yet (but i'm working on it! ). please excuse me...!

Where do you buy silver??? I have been looking desperately for silver suppliers for jewellery making for months and months, either in Berlin or online from a German supplier. and i have not been able to find anything AT ALL with my limited German knowledge.

I used to live in the United States and bought all my supplies from Rio Grande (http://www.riogrande.com) the biggest supplier there. apparently i cannot afford the shipping cost from the US. so, is there a supplier like this here in Germany? the most important is silver/sterling silver wires and findings. so far all i have managed to find online is only some shops that sell small pieces without many options at all (they don't specialise in selling silver).

i hope i'm not going against forum policies by asking this, if i am, i'm sorry! but if anyone can point me to the right direction, i really appreciate. thank you so much!!

Hello lafillette,

are you now living in Germany? Onlineshops are for example
http://www.goldschmiedebedarf.de/
http://zujeddeloh.de/

or you can order at the Scheideanstalten
http://www.schieferco.de/
and some other

thanks for the links, Nina!

yes i live in Germany now and i have been looking for German sites. but what's with the last link for Scheideanstalten? i can only see the front page...

they haven´t finished their hompage yet

but they are really friendly at the telephone and you could write E-Mails. I don´t know if they use English as businesslanguage. May be there is a friend who can order for you in german, if they don´t understand English?

ah i see! i'll check out the other links, they look quite good. i'll check back to see when they finish their site. it looks promising! thanks again!!

Dear lafillette,

"Scheideanstalt" stands for a company, doing the metal separation process and semi-finished materials (sheets and wires and so on..) for you.

Burger () is a Scheideanstalt I can recommend but there are others like:
C. Hafner () or Allgemeine (), all located in and around Pforzheim.

You can also check our webshop: http://shop.schula.de/
In case you need assistance in english, just let me know!

oh great! thank you all for all these suggestions! it's good that some of these sites have English translation options too, but also it's a good opportunity for me to struggle with my dictionary and learn some new words. thanks again!! i'm already having fun browsing what they got.

happy creating!

heya littlegirl

lafillette hat geschrieben:...but if anyone can point me to the right direction,...

of cause it's no hard work and it'll be a treat to do so...
your native speaking is a kind of slightly distracted. thx 4 got in here, typing that exceptional funny grammar stuff.
mb first u better use not scheideanstalten but volkshochschule-training-lessons for gett'n an improved and more credible "inglisch sät wäih"

hugs n blessings from jov arroyo

he'll be back -
for advertising promotion's threat(e)ning

what's wrong with the way i write...? you got me seriously confused.