American Craft Week will be featuring young talent as part of the national celebration of American crafts... huge publicity and a great boost for young artisans. If you know of excellent talent that could do with a boost or more recognition, this is
I was reading along at the Etsy forums as I do and saw someone request a definition of handmade. Almost everyone responded with the Etsy market definition of handmade, which as we know makes no distinctions between handmade, handcrafted, assembled or
Read more…This is an ongoing discussion in our office as we prepare the prospectus for the big move to Washington, DC and the rebranding of the Buyers Market into the American Made Show. For years we've been using the term craft, but the association with hobb
Read more…I ran out of cards a couple of shows back, and kept forgetting to make new ones. What I had been doing was making a folded card that was like a miniature brochure. It was printed on both sides and a pain in the butt to fold accurately. Printshops wou
Read more…Just joined the other day and got an email suggesting I introduce myself. I'm
Andrew and I started in this business making chainmaille jewelry. We opened up a website Chainmaille by MBOI http://chainmaillebymboi.com. Well we couldn't stop there, then
