Download the ByAnnie Zipper Color Card
Make color-matching zippers to your projects easy with this handy set.
Rather than trying to match colors to printed cards or imperfect images on a computer monitor, you'll love having the actual zippers to compare to your fabrics.
The heavy-duty 3" book ring holds one zipper of each of the 48 colors available.
TIP: To enable you to always match the zipper color to your fabric, we suggest that you keep the ring intact, using it as a reference and ordering additional zippers after matching the color to your fabric.
These hard-to-find #4.5 nylon-coil handbag zippers are perfect for all your bags, totes, and carriers. Here's why we prefer them:
- Dress and skirt zippers carried by most local stores are too small. The #4.5 size is just the right size for purses, bags, and totes.
- The wide zipper tape makes insertion easy.
- Unlike zippers with chunky, molded polyester teeth, these handbag zippers are soft and flexible, making them easy to sew through. (No more broken needles!)
- The nylon coil is strong and durable zip after zip.
- The extra-long pull makes your bag or purse easy to open.
- It's very easy to insert a fabric zipper pull in the large opening of the one-piece zipper pull.
Most of Annie's purse, tote, and laptop carrier patterns call for zippers ranging from 5" to 30" in length. We recommend always getting a handbag zipper that is longer than you actually need, as it is much easier to install them and avoid the stops at each end when they are longer. You can also use any left over zipper tape and pulls for other projects. To support this, and for easier inventory control, we have chosen to stock a limited selection of zipper sizes (24" single-slide, 30" and 40" double-slide, and Zippers by the Yard with 4 yards of zipper chain and 16 pulls).
All of Annie's patterns include complete instructions for installing zippers quickly and easily. We promise that these are the easiest zippers you will ever put into a project!