Australian Etsy

A pictorial post today.

I haven’t shopped much on Etsy but I do have a browse around once in awhile. Its rise and rise is astonishing and instructive in part because it’s a marketplace where women are the primary sellers and buyers. Sure it has strayed from its handmade pledge, perhaps much of it is driven by college educated women and much dross can be found on it. But that it came about at all I think provides plenty of material for a sociological and business analysis. At times, its overwhelming femininity can get far too twee but it can be a wonderful mirror of the myriad creative interests and abilities of women today. Today a few pictures from a couple of Australian etsyers.

Top Left: Spontaneous, unstructured clothes from Rawhemline; Top Right: Sweet jewellery pieces from michvanetta; Bottom Left: Delicate Photography from Waytoblue and Bottom Right: abstract artwork from gretchenmist - this one was example is "Native Garden Stripes".