First there were tap-dancing turkeys and then...

[ladkyis]

Last weekend while sitting at my stall in the Art and CRaft fair in the market I heard what sounded like people tapdancing. Now Newport is not a place that you could call the cutting edge of culture so it wasn't too surprising to hear this sound although it was ... unusual. I peered over the rail of the gallery (posh name for the upstairs bit) and

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[starry_jen]

ROFL!! I just love the idea of turkeys with minders :)

[the_hooded_crow]

Ah I miss the craft fairs in the market. I hope they are going well for you - they certainly sound like fun.
Scott and Oates? I'm impressed.:D

[ladkyis]

The craft fairs have been useless for me. No-one wants to buy textiles unless they are 'Designer' and therefore manufactured in millions and sold at high prices to the gullible.
If it is unique one off pieces that you make then they won't sell in Newport and at the moment they are not selling through the website either.

[the_hooded_crow]

I decided not to do any craft fairs in Newport this year, as I very rarely sold at them last year. When I was with Art Emporium, and not paying for my table that was OK, but I couldn't afford to pay for a table and still not sell anything.
I'm doing one fair - and that's the Millenium centre in Cardiff, I have a table booked there on Thursday. This is testing the water, to see how well my stuff goes down outside Newport. If it works well, I might book again next year.
I don't understand why people will buy mass manufactured stuff and think nothing of it, and yet they will practically pick hand-crafted goods to pieces before even considering spending money. I've seen this happen a lot at craft fairs - people looking everywhere for flaws. It's insulting, as if somehow, people who make things by hand aren't likely to be as good quality as the machined factory goods they are used to.
If they only would stop and think about this for a while, they might realised that hand crafted goods are likely to be higher quality.