Web design in Grampound

Continuity is the claim worth making

Where a craft has been practised in one place for a long time, saying so — how long, by whom, using what methods — separates the work from anything mass-produced.

Buyers of handmade goods are paying for exactly that, and they cannot pay for a story they were never told.

Photographs and film of the process prove it; photographs of the finished piece alone do not.

Selling at a distance needs the basics

Prices, timescales for commissions, postage, what arrives how, and what happens if something is wrong are what convert an order from somebody who cannot visit.

Small makers frequently publish beautiful photographs and none of this, which is where the sale is lost.

A village on the road between two towns

Grampound also serves an ordinary local and farming market between Truro and St Austell.

Questions people here ask

Is craft history worth publishing?

It is frequently the strongest argument a maker has. Buyers pay for provenance but cannot pay for a story never told.

What should the photographs show?

The process as well as the piece. Making is what proves the claim that a finished photograph only implies.

What is usually missing?

Prices, commission timescales, postage and returns. Beautiful photographs without them lose the order.