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Macrame or macramé is a form of textile-making using knotting rather than weaving or knitting. Its primary knots are the square knot and forms of hitching (full hitch and double half hitches). It has been used by sailors, especially in elaborate or ornamental knotting forms to decorate anything from knife handles to bottles to parts of ships.
Cavandoli macrame is a variety of macrame that is able to form geometric patterns and/or free-form patterns like weaving.
Business
Macrame as a business is classified as an industry based on its purpose. It can be
in the manufacturing industry as a textile product (NAICS Code
314999) if what is produced is a new product,
such as an article of clothing. It can be in the arts industry if the macrame is considered
to be a work of art (NAICS Code 711510),
rather than a product.
There are a variety of ways people make money from macrame. Some sell their macrame locally, at trade shows or via the internet. Others sell original patterns or kits they have designed themselves. And, still others teach macrame. The best way to learn more about the viabiiity of any of these business models is to participate in associations and workshops, subscribe to magazines that are related to your interests, and read books that give more in-depth information about the business.
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The Basic Guide to Pricing Your Craftwork
Basic formulas for pricing craftwork, retail or wholesale.
The Basic Guide to Selling Arts & Crafts
Step-by-step help on over 150 topics for marketing your home made crafts.
The Basic Guide to Selling Crafts on the Internet
Unravels the mysteries of selling crafts online with clear, step-by-step advice.
Business and Legal Forms for Crafts
A complete set of business and legal forms designed to meet the active craftperson's every need.
The Business of Sewing, Volume 1
Sample price lists; lists of organizations and lending institutions; payment methods
you can offer your customers; how to get a merchant account for credit card sales;
how to collect money on past due accounts; buying in bulk with a list of
suppliers and a sample letter to contact them; business and financial plans;
studio design, networking; time management;
tackling your fears; turning sewing into a business and making the transition; how
to avoid getting frustrated; industry statistics.
The Business of Sewing, Volume 2
How to make a "Consumer Price List", and how to structure a "Working Price List"
and the use of both; what "Pricing" method is best for you and how to handle price
resistance; how to conduct production analysis with a time and motion
study; how to make a project inventory list; how to market your business;
subcontractors or fabricators and how to hire them; E-commerce and
on-line merchant accounts, web design, shopping carts and E-newsletters;
how to write books and articles, teach seminars and workshops, and produce sewing
audios and videos.
Chinese Knotting
Traces the origins, history, and symbolism of the craft in addition to explaining the
fundamental elements necesary for tying Chinese decorative knots - the materials,
implements, and main processes.
The Complete Book of Decorative Knots
Easy-to-follow expert instruction in how to tie over 80 elaborate knots, ranging from
the simple to the more complex. The book is divided into five sections of different
elaborate knots - lanyard knots, button knots and globe knots, Turk's heads, mats and
hitching, and chains and plaits. Every section contains background information on the
history, lore and accreditation of the knots featured.
Crafting as a Business
How to develop a thriving retail business.
Crafting for Dollars
Covers every aspect of starting and managing your own craft-based business.
Crafts and Crafts Shows
Good business practice in dealing with customers, pricing, and presentation in the show booth.
The Crafts Business Answer Book & Resource Guide
Answers to questions about starting, marketing, and managing a homebased business
efficiently, legally, and profitably.
Handmade for Profit
Hundreds of secrets to success in selling arts & crafts.
Hemp Masters: Ancient Hippie Secrets for Knotting Hip Hemp Jewelry
A simple, easy to follow, instructional guide to creating outstanding chokers,
bracelets, anklets and car mirror charms. This is not just a project book, it
is a complete knotting guide which gives the reader tools for creating their own patterns.
The Knotty Macrame & Beading Book: Techniques for Bead Lovers
This update of a classic has a wide range; including chokers, necklaces, bracelets,
plant hangers, and more. Illustrations and patterns are included.
The Macrame Book
This book explains the basic knots and describes the materials and equipment needed
to begin. After giving patterns and directions for simple projects like belts and
necklaces, it proceeds to bags and purses, dress accessories and hangings. More
advanced techniques, such as twining and wrapping, the numerous illustrations,
both diagrams and photographs, clarify the techniques at every stage. Some outstanding
designs by contemporary artists are featured.
Make It Profitable!
The best ideas and information from 80 professionals in various fields of the craft industry.
The New Macrame: Contemporary Knotted Jewelry and Accessories
Using new materials with old techniques to create eminently practical and stylish objects.
The author begins with a historical overview, pointing out the craft's origins in
thirteenth-century Turkey and its popularity among Victorian England households.
With an emphasis on macrame's simplicity, she then turns to explaining basic knots (and
their variations) in illustrations, color photographs, and words.
Your Crafts Business: A Legal Guide
Explains legal principles that protect a crafts business and help it grow. It also
provides practical advice on how to deal with day-to-day problems -- such as dealing
with delinquent payments. The book provides over a dozen tear-out contracts and other
legal forms, plus step-by-step instructions to fill them out.
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Beadwork
Beautiful beaded projects with clear instructions, inspiring articles filled
with techniques, and features to keep you up-to-date with the beading world.
Expression
Paper arts, jewelry-making, fabric arts, and home decoration projects and ideas suited
to both the novice and professional artist.
Fiberarts : The Magazine Of Textiles
Reviews national and international exhibitions, and explores new trends and issues facing the field.
Ornament
A 25-year old international publication devoted personal adornment, covering
ancient, ethic & contemporary jewelry, beads & historic and artist-made clothing.
Piecework
Cross-stitch, embroidery, knitting, quilting, crochet, beading, lace making, and crochet,
plus the stories and ethnic traditions behind the techniques.
