We’re three days from the end of daylight saving time and Gary and Beth gathered to do some chatting about needlework. Topics include Rozashi stitching, Breast Cancer Research Foundation fund raising, pdf downloads and supporting needlework shops, and whether it’s worth the effort to take a drawing class to be able to better create designs. Sunday’s guests: Beth, Jenifer, and Cindy.–Beth and Gary
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Hi Beth and Gary, I love Fiber Talk and am following you for several months, listening my way „from the bottom up“, but today I have to cut in on the discussion for the first time.
I don’t really understand the whole pdf vs. printed chart thing. You always say „support your local needlework shop“, and I agree with that – as long as you do have a local needlework shop within walking or reasonable driving distance. We in Germany don’t. There are four, maybe five brick and mortar needlework shops in the country of which I know, and all of them are in West Germany (and maybe Berlin), while I’m living in East Germany. There was one 80 km from my city, no idea if it still exists, because the lady was so impolite at my visit two years ago that I will surely never visit her again. That having said, driving 160 km would cost me 35 Euro, which I just don’t have to spare.
So if you don’t have a local shop, you have to order your chart online or by phone, right? If they send you a printed chart, you will have to pay for the shipping, which would be in my country additional 5 Euro. The shop doesn’t get anything out of it, it’s for the parcel service. IF you have the luck to find your chart in a (in my case) German shop. If you’re not so lucky, you have to order it abroad, which pushes the shipping cost up to 12 to 15 Euro (minimum) and adds import sales tax plus a flat rate of min. 6 Euro for the parcel service! For the financial situation of many of us this is madness!
Wouldn’t it be therefore much better if already the shops offered the charts as downloadable pdfs? Whether you get a ready printed chart, or you print it yourself on your own printer – where’s the difference? The copyright issue remains the same: if someone wants to cheat, what is stopping her or him to copy the printed chart and give it away or give away a printed chart she or he has already used?
The only remaining question would be: do I sell my pdf charts through a needlework shop or through my own shop? But that wasn’t the actual question of today’s talk, was it? Why not support all the private online and etsy shops? As for instance Mary Corbet’s e-shop where she is selling her patterns … as downloadable pdfs for many years. 😉
Thank you for all you have done and are still doing for the needlework world!
Angela from Chemnitz, Germany
Thanks for your thoughts and a large segment in the March 23 show. Let us know if you have any additional thoughts.
Gary