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Vianza is a private network for wholesalers and retailers
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Leela Design Studio designs and develops hand-crafted products, while pumping critical business-building resources into New Delhi's local craft community -- and across the country. "Leela" literally means "imagination," and the studio's core mission is to act as a creative conduit -- a channel for Indian artisans to connect with the wider global marketplace....
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Growing up in the small historic New England town of Mystic, Connecticut, founder Caroline Colóm Vásquez learned to appreciate antique treasures early in life. Her mother, an art historian, taught her that items holding special meanings or their own history are meant to be cherished – a philosophy that is the inspiration of the work she creates today at Paloma’s Nest...
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Colleen Dougherty Bronstein is an artist, clothing designer and metalsmith, whose work has been showcased everywhere from the White House in Washington D.C. to the Celestial Seasonings tea factory in Boulder, Colorado. After being diagnosed with malignant melanoma, Colleen alchemized her considerable talents into a sun-safe clothing line, with a colorful, feminine spin. She is...
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By her own admission, Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark spends her waking hours dyeing a spectrum of yarns, and her evenings dreaming up ways to use all those groovy colors. Not a bad life for a comic book-loving, belly-dancing, craft-tastic gal from Connecticut. Mercedes is the main brains behind Kitchen Sink Dyeworks , as well as The Badass Yarn Club -- a fiber-arts collective devoted to...
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Lauren Venell is an independent toy designer + artist from San Francisco, whose wonderfully kitschy Sweet Meats plush toys are scattered across stores all over North America and Europe. She’s also the co-founder and programming director for the Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs , and teaches small business workshops around the Bay Area. As if that weren’t...
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Eat More Plants Silkscreen Print from Brainstorm Print and Design. Brainstorm Print and Design is the design team of Briana Feola and Jason Snyder. Illustrators and printmakers, the pair started Brainstorm in 2007 with the goal of creating art prints for the home decor market. Briana and Jason sell their prints in both retail and wholesale venues, to...
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For this edition of Small Batch Stories, I sat down with Erica from Smock to learn what’s been the secret to their success? Tell us a little about Smock. Smock is an inspired invitation and stationery line, designed by Amy Graham Stigler, and sustainably letterpress printed on our own bamboo paper. Our home is in Syracuse, NY, a post...