For ceramicists, jewellers, furniture and textiles
A shop without the marketplace around it
Your own page, your own prices, your own postage terms, and nobody selling a cheaper version of your thing in a strip along the bottom of it. Plus a room full of makers with kiln space, press time, a van, and the skill you were about to pay for.
The difference
Nobody is bidding for the top of a page you are on
On a marketplace you pay for the traffic twice — once in fees, and once in the competitors printed underneath your own listing. Then somebody buys an advert against your name and you pay a third time.
Here there is no sponsored row and no way to buy your way in front of another member. The shop and its search put your work beside other members', in the order the words match and never in the order anybody paid. And once a buyer is on your page, everything they see next is also yours.
The shop
Built for things that are heavy, slow or one of a kind
Made to order
A stated handling time on the page, so nobody is emailing on day four to ask where the chair is.
One of a kind
Marked sold the second it sells, which for a maker with one kiln is the difference between a good day and an apology.
Postage that reflects reality
One postage charge you set, the countries you will actually post to, and your own words on size and crating. Agreed at checkout.
Returns on your terms
Your policy, stated up front, honoured by you. We do not impose a platform-wide policy you have to fund.
Patronage
Seconds, offcuts, test tiles, a piece a quarter. Makers underestimate how many people want this.
Read morePayouts
Into your own Stripe account, and on to your bank on Stripe's schedule. Our 8%, with Stripe's processing folded in, comes off on the way past.
Read moreThe club
What a corridor of other makers is worth
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Kiln space, press time, a spare wall
Posted as calls, and answered by people three streets away who had it standing idle.
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A skill for a skill
Glazing help for photographs. A logo for a set of plates. A day of assisting for a day of assisting, written down by both of you.
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A stall you did not have to book alone
Fairs, markets and open studios, shared between members who would each have paid full price on their own. -
Somebody who has already made this mistake
Pricing, wholesale, whether to take the big order. A mentor for six months, three hours a month.
I came to sell mugs. Eleven months later I have a woodworker who makes my plinths, a photographer who shoots the glaze properly, and a standing invitation to a supper I would have been too shy to ask about. The mugs are doing fine too.
Questions about designers and makers
Can I take wholesale orders?
What about very heavy things?
Do I have to keep stock?
Is there a fee for listing?
Open the shop, then post for the kiln space
The first half pays for the studio. The second half is why members stay.