Craftster

Craftser
Founded May 2000 (2000-05)
Headquarters El Segundo, California, U.S.
Website http://www.craftster.org/
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Craftster is an online community for crafting and do it yourself enthusiasts.[1] Users post pictures of craft projects they have made and others comment and ask questions about how it was made.[2]

The site's tagline, "No tea cozies without irony", refers to the fact that many of the projects posted are irreverent, off-beat, humorous, clever, etc. While projects posted on the site tend to be made using traditional techniques such as knitting, crochet, cross stitch and sewing they often convey modern sentiments such as images of a favorite rock band, or motifs from a favorite 1980s video game.[3]

The site has over 190,000 registered members.[4] It has been written up in publications such as TIME Magazine, the New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.[5] [6] [7] The membership is over 190,000, and readership is over 1,000,000 unique visitors per month and over 10,000,000-page views per month.[8]

The site has been called be one of the forces behind the renaissance of crafting among a new, young, contemporary demographic.[9]

History

The site was started on June 27, 2003[10] by crafter and computer programmer Leah Kramer.[11][12][13] The term "Craftster" is a portmanteau of "crafty hipster" and a nod to pioneering peer-to-peer sites Napster and Friendster.[14] Prior to starting the site, Kramer was one of the organizers of the Boston Bazaar Bizarre, a yearly "punk rock craft fair," begun in 2001.[15]

References

  1. ↑ MSNBC. "Designer combines the nerdy with the crafty".
  2. ↑ TIME (March 1, 2005). "Pretty Crafty". Time.
  3. ↑ The Daily Record. "It's Sew Easy To Make & Mend".
  4. ↑ Associated Press. "Get crafty for holiday gifts".
  5. ↑ Washington Post (February 5, 2009). "Feeling Crafty? Inspiration Abounds on These 5 Sites". The Washington Post.
  6. ↑ New York Times (July 2, 2006). "Crafster Founder Interview". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ SeattlePI (January 9, 2008). "Sewing Hip". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  8. ↑ "Statistics Center". Craftster.org. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  9. ↑ Associated Press. "'Alternative' crafters bring new eye to crafts".
  10. ↑ "Craftster.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  11. ↑ SFList. "Interview with Craftser Founder".
  12. ↑ Boston Globe (July 26, 2006). "Calling all craftsters". The Boston Globe.
  13. ↑ Boston Globe (June 22, 2006). "She and Kitsch Go Way Back". The Boston Globe.
  14. ↑ "About Craftster". Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  15. ↑ "Crafting gets attitude". Boston Globe (December 7, 2005). Retrieved 14 October 2016.
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