Pin Badge Maker & Trader – Ipswich
The best thing about family days out in the ’70s was bringing home a badge and pinning it up, adding to the collection on my bedroom curtains!
Rainbow Badges has grown from a hobby, which started in 1978. With great excitement and two years of preparation, my hobby became a business in the summer of 2014.
I produce badges for campaigns, clubs, musicians, organisations, colleges, schools, and museums.
Making badges for events and occasionally having a stall at festivals has always been a particular favourite!
Rainbow Badges Curiosity Shop also features both current topics and historic events. Designs vary from reflecting messages of the past from social history to simple tongue-in-cheek humour designed to get a giggle. In our troubled times, laughter can be medicine. Smiles are free and pleasantly contagious, which partly explains why there are so many smiley face designs in my badge shop! He he 🙂
In the workshop, my badges are made using a combination of customers’ own artwork, ideas, and requirements.
My own pin badges are individually hand-pressed. The design is printed on photo paper and protected with a hardwearing clear polyester film.
A unique collection of new and vintage badges
Badges are fun to collect and make great presents too!
Take a look at my unique collection of vintage badges from many years of collecting, all needing new homes. This unusual collection of new and vintage badges is constantly growing and they are all for sale! We also have stickers, postcards, and iron-on patches in stock. If you are looking for a particular pin badge we are happy to add your request to our wish list 🙂
NEW IN
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I’ve got a baby brother – Pin badge -
I’m a KP Crinkle-ologist – Vintage pin badge -
Autoglass – Vintage pin badges -
Mickey Mouse Skateboarding – Pin badge -
I only look sweet and innocent – Pin badge -
Animal Defenders – Roe Deer – Vintage RSPCA badge -
I’m for a cleaner city – Pin badge -
Slipknot – Metal badge -
Iron Maiden – Metal badge -
I don’t know, I just work here – Pin badges and magnets -
Halley’s Comet – Pin badge -
Suffragette City – Pin badge
Latest posts
- Badgemaking at Clifford Road Tunnels 🙂Rainbow Badges is making the event badges at Clifford Road Tunnels this coming Saturday the 8th of April! You are welcome … Read more
- Excited we’re going to the Burston Strike School Rally 2022!I’m definitely not the only one! It seems such a long time since the last rally at Burston.With things almost back … Read more
- “ere ya go ba”That’s something you might expect to hear whilst being passed a beer in a Suffolk pub.Like all areas of the British … Read more
- Our first event of the year 2022If you’re in East Anglia this Saturday 12th of March 2022 Here is a nice family event to check out 🙂 … Read more
- First design of 2022! – Anglo Saxon BeastA design inspired by Anglo Saxon brooches discovered in East Anglia. The backwards facing animal has three claws and a beak-like … Read more
- Warning: H.M.Government can damage your healthRainbow Badges has re-made this vintage badge We love the subtle subvertising of a government warning on this fabulous vintage pin … Read more
FLAT RATE POSTAGE ON EVERY ORDER HOWEVER BIG!
UK £2.39
International £6.95
As a maker, collector, and trader of badges, my focus is on sharing ideas, growing the collection, supporting the project, and having fun rather than accumulating great wealth!
As a business, my core values are to promote freedom of speech, grassroots people power, human rights, equal rights for the disabled, the protection of the environment, and animal rights.
I take a stand against violence, racism, fascism, homophobia, slavery, cruelty, oppressive governments, and police brutality.
I hope you enjoy looking at my website!
Please feel free to leave comments or contact me
Peace and love
Ziggy Norton Xx