$3300 USD
Special Launch Pricing
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Everything you need to start a fashion, jewelry or home goods business in a 10 days. On-site in Jaipur, India.
Creators Week is a project of the Jaipur Crafts Festival.
It is up to you to initiate collection pre-development with your project manager. Seven weeks is enough time for a capsule collection if you are diligent. Ten days on-site is not enough time to initiate new projects. We can help you be successful, but neither we, nor the PMs can help designers who do not choose to begin early.
The goal should be to arrive in Jaipur ready to review and adjust collection samples.
Collaborate directly with craftspeople and the Project Manager on refinements.
Work on finalizing collection details, developing Tech-Packs, creating patterns, and sized toiles.
Cover costs not included in the fee: flights, transportation to/from Jaipur, dinner, costs of capsule materials, printing/sewing/embellishment costs
Prepare for collection launch and brick/mortar, e-commerce or hybrid on-chain sales.
Learn about import/export volume production and supply chain tracing. To take advantage of the tracing service, we'll supply you with query forms for your project managers and vendors. Currently, it is rare to be able to trace most textiles back to their beginnings but documenting available data begins to create customer trust around your marketing claims. Tracing will be limited by available technology and your vendors.
White screen product photos are part of the 10 x 10 package. Participate in professional photography sessions (if samples are ready and option is chosen).
Optional marketing tools (Professional Photography, E-commerce Website) are available as upgrades.
You’ll pay a 50% deposit at registration and 25% in the month before you arrive. Pay the final 25% of the program fee upon arrival.
Why Start Jaipur Creators Week?
We started Jaipur Creators Week to support heritage crafts and artisan makers in India. Lots of people want the same—but we're interested in the formal aspects of market repair.
In 2018, we returned to India after a long hiatus and became accidental crafts researchers because a meter of handwoven, indigo-dyed fabric cost the same everywhere. That breaks basic market logic, where there's usually a relationship between price and quality. These fabrics had different cotton, different weaving, and different indigo. Why was the pricing flat? Flat pricing is generally for commodities like copper and oil?
The full story is, here.
That question led us to Structural Market Analysis of Indian handwovens. Crafts were broken on four out of five—maybe five out of five—functions of working markets. We founded the Jaipur Crafts Festival and built a crafts differentiation strategy to activate change. That led to Weave3 and Economy3.
Creators Week is part of that differentiation strategy. Tracing crafts in native JSON-LD helps repair the crafts sector on dimensions of:
Complete Information
Absence of Externalities
Public Interest
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