After months of uncertainty, the “Big 4” sewing pattern brands — Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue, and Butterick — have been saved. Rubelmann Capital and longtime Simplicity executive Abbie Small are leading a relaunch of the historic pattern company, preserving jobs, archives, and the last U.S. tissue pattern presses while modernizing for a digital future.
The owner of the Big 4 sewing pattern makers was spun off from its U.K. parent company in May and is now being sold at liquidation.
Many of the recent shakeups in the craft world were instigated by private equity investors. A new book explains their motivations.
JOANN, an 80-year-old retailer, is seeing a second bankruptcy limp towards liquidation, with bids due next week.
A new product safety regulation coming into effect in December is about to make non-European sellers do a lot of extra work.
One year after examining the potential impacts of generative AI on creative industries, it’s clear that tools like those on Etsy are both useful and disruptive, leading to policy clarifications and heightened awareness of AI-generated content’s prevalence and challenges.
The world’s creative manufacturers and distributors convened at h+h Cologne in Germany, where small retail is king.
Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, sanctions are affecting the creative industry beyond Russia’s borders.
As the craft retailer, Michaels, goes private — again — JOANN and Cricut are going public. Here’s how to understand the implications of these changes.
Product sales on the craft marketplace Etsy more than doubled in 2020, to $10.3 billion making this a blockbuster year.