Crochet Framed Pictures - how to sell?
Crochet Framed Pictures - how to sell?
My gf's sister crochets these in the countryside using a pattern and taking many weeks with each. Any ideas about how to sell them? The one with the $100 bills growing on trees is particularly wry.
Can't she do it at home rather than being sent to the countryside to do it?
Try Facebook or any market in PP.
Try Facebook or any market in PP.
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At the risk of ridicule...
Isn’t that cross-stitch rather than crochet?
You should rent a stall in the Russian market. Those things are gorgeous, they’ll fly off the shelves.
YTP is right. A Facebook post on one of the buy and sell pages is the best way to go. Not sure there’ll be any profit in it though.
Isn’t that cross-stitch rather than crochet?
You should rent a stall in the Russian market. Those things are gorgeous, they’ll fly off the shelves.
YTP is right. A Facebook post on one of the buy and sell pages is the best way to go. Not sure there’ll be any profit in it though.
Cross stitching seems to extremely popular with Khmer women...I've had trouble getting service from bars, restaurants, mini-marts and even hostess bars because the staff were too occupied with their cross stitching.
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
It's the beginning of the end for a business in Cambodia when the staff have got the time and freedom to cross-stitch.PSD_Kiwi wrote:Cross stitching seems to extremely popular with Khmer women...I've had trouble getting service from bars, restaurants, mini-marts and even hostess bars because the staff were too occupied with their cross stitching.
If they aren't those made in a strictly square pattern copied from DIY books (which can be machine made in a few minutes) they can sell quite quell, I have seen many people buying them for their homes. I know a clinic which bought a large one, with oblique knitting not just square for 300$. I believe there is a large number of aficionados of this art here in Cambodia. The thinner the treads the more expensive the picture.
Original designs, well made with thin threads can cost thousands of dollars.
Original designs, well made with thin threads can cost thousands of dollars.
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There certainly are, some of those big goldfish cross-stitched pieces can go for a few grand. It's a popular sort of cottage-industry where pieces are farmed out and promises are made for huge returns. Unfortunately the labor-intensive nature of it makes it impossible to make much out of. It's a way to whittle away the time and make a few bob I suppose.jackrossi wrote: I believe there is a large number of aficionados of this art here in Cambodia. The thinner the treads the more expensive the picture.
Original designs, well made with thin threads can cost thousands of dollars.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Example of a fine thread 3000$+ knitted art.
If you go with real silk the price can be even higher (but that might take a year to complete), if your missus has the passion she should try to make a massive unique piece with fine thread. You will sell it at Naga or Chinatown within few hours if it's any good.
still better than a random job salary here if you can make 2 each year and sell them for 3.500$ each that's a khmer manager salary.
Idk about the other two but the one with Peacocks certainly isn't an original design as I have one on my wall at home. Girlfriend bought the set from Old Market for about $25 and it took her about two months iirc. And it's sewing, crochet is something else entirely.
I don't think the sets you buy in the market are ever worth much no matter how well you sew them, but I guess I could be wrong.
I don't think the sets you buy in the market are ever worth much no matter how well you sew them, but I guess I could be wrong.
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I've seen so many girls think they can money making them... They're a way to kill time. For every one sold at a place like Naga, there are three thousand others collecting dust or being given away to family and friends. A friend though that Khmers abroad would want them, and probably so, but I can't see it. I find them pretty blend tbh. Always the same Angkor Wat or galloping horses designs. What is it with the Chinese and galloping horses and cliché waterfalls?
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Yes few people really want the basic designs which can be made by anyone with time and patience.LexusSchmexus wrote:I've seen so many girls think they can money making them... They're a way to kill time. For every one sold at a place like Naga, there are three thousand others collecting dust or being given away to family and friends. A friend though that Khmers abroad would want them, and probably so, but I can't see it. I find them pretty blend tbh. Always the same Angkor Wat or galloping horses designs. What is it with the Chinese and galloping horses and cliché waterfalls?
Those that sell are visibly higher grade and require actual skills to make.
It's very similar to the grading for handmade Persian carpets or old western tapestries.
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Calm down, violet, no need to get crotchetyviolet wrote:It is not crochet. Just to confirm.
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