A San Francisco institution since 1952 and newly renovated, Britex offers an absurd number and variety of fabrics, not to mention a selection of more than 30,000 buttons. Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm, Sundays 12 noon-5pm.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's San Francisco 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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