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I was gift shopping, and was just browsing topic by topic. In the past I had done so and stumbled across all sorts of amazing handmade items without much diggin

by jzl 9y ago

I was gift shopping, and was just browsing topic by topic. In the past I had done so and stumbled across all sorts of amazing handmade items without much digging at all. Look at the landing page for "Home & Living" and you'll see what I mean: https://www.etsy.com/c/home-and-living?ref=catnav-891 https://www.etsy.com/c/home-and-living?ref=catnav-891 I could see how some specific topics might still have more handmade items than not.

ghaff 9y ago
To my eye, most of the items on that page look pretty mass-produced or mass-produced + a personalization step. There's nothing wrong with that. I sometimes buy mass-produced "craftwork." Just because a wind chime (or whatever) is produced in a factory at some scale doesn't suddenly make it ugly. And it's not like the average thing being sold at a genuine craft fair is attractive. That said, I have too much stuff and I just tend to be uninterested in buying more even if there's nothing wrong per se with individual pieces.