[Jewelry making - Article 00409] - Re: [Orchid] First wholesale show

[Noel Yovovich]

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>     display tips (I'll have a 4 X 6 foot table), policies for buying
>     (e.g. should I have a minimum order? 

    I'm no authority on wholesale, but I think I'm on solid ground
    saying yes, have a minimum order. The few wholesale shows I tried, I
    tended to have small stores order one each of nearly everything, so
    be prepared for that (I had imagines orders would be multiples).
    Your prices have to make it worthwhile. 

    Not sure what others will say, but to me, a normal table-height is
    hard on the back and looks amateurish. Find a way to raise your
    tanle to counter height. 

    My favorite way to deal with display props, though I buy necklace
    busts, is to wrap cardboard boxes with a layer of quilt batting
    (thinnest) then a layer of fabric (black velour, in my case) and
    hot-glue it on the back. No limit to sizes and shapes. Neat, no
    draped wrinkles all over from covering everything with one piece of
    fabric. 

    I would also say, resist the impulse to overload cases. A somewhat
    spare display draws attention to the individual objects, avoids what
    another artist described as the "showing everything you ever made"
    look. 

    Personally, I never put extraneous decorative objects in my cases--
    people always want to buy them. Unless they clarify something about
    your work, I think they're just distracting. Keep it simple. 

    Last, six feet of length isn't much-- four feet is too much. Again,
    it can look like a church sale. You can buy narrow tables from
    places like Sam's Club and raise them with PVC pipe, make a nice Z
    shape, draped to the ground for hidden storage space. 

Good luck!
Noel
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