Kate suggested:
> The best place is a fine yarn shop. See if you could sell on > consignment, > or for special order. That way the shop won't be out any money up > front, > and you can get an idea of what type of yarn might be marketable. I ran into two hurdles I just wasn't able to clear. I took my yarns to some high-end yarn shops in New York and the results were the same in all places. Everyone who saw the yarn liked it very much - well, they didn't exactly "ooh" and "aah", but this is New York remember, where people only "ooh" and "aah" if they are pinned under the wheels of a bus. But the admiration seemed genuine, to the point that they all spent quite some time with me which they would not otherwise have done. Pricing the wool yarn, light worsted weight mostly, at about $7 an ounce to me did not cause a problem, even though these people have huge overhead and their markup is around 2.5X. What ended all our conversations was the same obstacle: since these yarns are handmade, not manufactured, there is a one-of-a-kind nature to them and the store or the customers would not be able to reorder the exact yarn if they needed more. Second drawback, trying to figure out what quantity of each yarn would be suitable. Short of putting up a kit with yarn and pattern all together, which I definitely would not get into, how much yarn? Hat or scarf amount? What pattern? How big, how long? A sweater's worth? What kind of pattern? What size? And so it went. So did I :-( Carol http://www.thesilkworker.com To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
