Members glmr Posted July 2, 2015 Members Report Posted July 2, 2015 Hi there! My name is Kostik and I'm living in Italy. Some months ago I've got an access to laser cutting machine and now I'm trying to produce leather bracelets. For some items I'm using stitching pony and hand stitching, just because I like the quality of handmade stitch and I don't have a leather sewing machine. For the last reason I can't produce any other stuff, but I hope to sell my items and collect some money for sewing machine. Here are my items. Comments are welcome. Quote http://www.qualcosanostra.it https://www.facebook.com/qualcosanostra
Members glmr Posted July 2, 2015 Author Members Report Posted July 2, 2015 Welcome! Nice work! thank you! Quote http://www.qualcosanostra.it https://www.facebook.com/qualcosanostra
King's X Posted July 3, 2015 Report Posted July 3, 2015 Very nice work! Hello and welcome to the forum! Quote Greetings from Central Texas! The Grain Side Up blog #TheGrainSideUp
dirtclod Posted July 3, 2015 Report Posted July 3, 2015 Nice job on the bracelets !! I really like the first one and the forth one. Looks to me like you should be able to sell all of them at a good price to. Quote I'm old enough to know that i don't know everything.
Members glmr Posted July 3, 2015 Author Members Report Posted July 3, 2015 thank you. I have some sales, but the development is veeeery slow, so I'm afraid to die from hunger before (or instead of) success =) Quote http://www.qualcosanostra.it https://www.facebook.com/qualcosanostra
Members Jake98 Posted July 5, 2015 Members Report Posted July 5, 2015 Your work is beautiful! Keep at it, you will be very successful! Quote
Members BondoBobCustomSaddles Posted July 5, 2015 Members Report Posted July 5, 2015 Welcome to the forum. Unique work. You should be able to get those sold easily. Where in Italy are you? There are lots of shops there in the bigger cities that you may be able to place your work in on consignment, or wholesale for resale. I think that may be a nice niche for you. With some of the patterns that you have been laser cutting, you may be able to incorporate those into womens foot wear, sandals and such. Again, nice work. Bob Quote
Members glmr Posted July 7, 2015 Author Members Report Posted July 7, 2015 Thank you. I'm in Friuli-Venezia-Giulia province, ad it is far from Venice. There is no big cities here and population is low. I tried to contact with some shops here, but they don't want to buy. Some shops can take for sales and pay after, but they don't have an interest to sell, because they need to sell that goods they already bought. Another problem is that shop adds 140% so the final price becomes unreachable for the final client. As I know the situation in big cities is a similar. And I'm not sure if Italy is a good place for sales. Maybe you have an idea how can I reach small wholsellers/resellers from USA? Quote http://www.qualcosanostra.it https://www.facebook.com/qualcosanostra
Members Jake98 Posted July 7, 2015 Members Report Posted July 7, 2015 I would say to look up tack stores in the USA. I'm in the Northern part of the United States and we have a pretty big population of horse lovers. I know some of the high end tack and saddlery shops carry a lot of Italian leather products including jewelry and fashion items. I think your bracelets would do really well. Maybe one to reach out to is Chagrin Saddlery in Chagrin Falls Oh. Their number is 440-708-0674 (sorry, I don't know our country code). They might be small enough that you wouldn't take as much of a hit. I would also really use Facebook to network and try to promote your items. Just my 2 cents:-) Quote
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