This is a great discussion! I want to correct something, and clarify something. I mis-stated the price on my "designer" kitchen towels -- it's actually $62 (not $65). I considered raising it to the

I am finding this discussion quite interesting. The marketplace is a spectrum. I don't even try to appeal to the highest end of it because I live in a small geographically remote town, far away from

The Scottish Artists Union calculate a 'suggested rate' for artists each year, and their model is based on a (pretty generous) allowance of 65% of an artist's time being spent actually producing work

Hi folks, I know I will never get rich weaving cotton dish/hand towels, but I do sell a couple hundred a year, and the plain ol' plain ol' white towels with a border at each end or stripes down the

1. Someone has said these are not well made. Could that please be explained?? How/why are they not well made? 2. What is a hamam towel?

That’s true about interior designers. My sister is one, and while she doesn’t have clients that are multi-millionaires, she has run into that mentality of “just find me something unique”. At

This has been a fascinating thread. I think I felt a little of everything that everyone has posted on this topic. What's especially interesting is that we are looking at a well marketed product, and

Darlene has a point. I learned early on that customers gladly pay more for a scarf to wear around their necks than some small item (towel?) for the kitchen. Also, the weaver can easily advertise

I do Creative Education(demoing/teaching), Social Media advertising and PR, and Design team management for Indie Woman owned businesses - mostly crafts products and artists, and charge starting at

Marg, You know, as do all here, that in today’s press world, such vulgar andaggressive presentations are the norm – that wasn’t meant for any one person –just an observation. I’ve run a

Having watched, quietly, and appreciating that there are some who recognise that A Production time and materials are only a proportion of the costs and need to be recovered (under-pricing

I'm pretty well retired now but when I was weaving full time I made a simple decision to never weave tea towels and I never have. For about the same amount of time I could weave far more interesting

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Nancy Curtiss ncurtiss@... [WeaveTech] <WeaveTech@...> wrote: Yes - and there is a worksheet in my book (which just went to the printers,

If the purchasers can afford to spend that much for a towel that is quite frankly not a "show towel", then they are probably not the people in the household actually using the towels either! Is

Hi Debbie The best idea yet !!!! Louise in rural NorCal

Not only money costs but cost in time. Time taken out of production. Judy in Knife River

When I was in Stockholm a few years ago, I came across a shop run by fivewomen. Each had a different specialty and each took one week to run the shopwhile staying at their studios the other weeks

I like that Tien reminds us to consider business costs. Rental of space/use of home business space, self-employment tax, sales tax, vendors licenses, health insurance, etc. will all take their toll

Hi Tien, Actually yes, I would be willing to give up $ to be able to just spend my time doing what I enjoy, ie the weaving. It turns out I am not very good at marketing and I don't really enjoy that

If the purchase price was $120 rather than the $35 I ask and also pay a commission on, you betcha! Cynthia