Cool online crafts market links buyers, sellers
The Ithaca Journal/Gannett News Service - November 8 2006
Melissa and Zach Oat don't make wooden ducks or macrame owls.Instead, the 20-something newlyweds are part of a generation of craft artists who approach handmade goods with a satirical sensibility that tends toward ironic T-shirts rather than tea cozies.
They've been selling their creations since June on a new Web marketplace called Etsy, devoted entirely to crafts.
“I wouldn't picture myself making anything for people to wear or anything like that,” said Zach Oat, of Suffern, N.Y., who studied fine arts in college. “Crafts was something that your grandmother did or that kids did in school or at camp.”
But the word “craft” has suddenly become cool, thanks to a revival of interest in knitting, beading and sewing among younger people who have an unconventional take on the traditional arts. [more]
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