Crafters
Putnam Farmers' Market welcomes artisans/crafters. There are a few limited crafts spaces available. Items must be locally produced and must be juried for acceptance.
Specific criteria for crafts to be sold at the Putnam Farmers' Market:
All Members Must Reside Within 50 Arial Miles of the Putnam County Courthouse in Winfield, WV
We do not accept buy-sell or commercial vendors.
All Members Must Reside Within 50 Arial Miles of the Putnam County Courthouse in Winfield, WV
We do not accept buy-sell or commercial vendors.
Artisans/crafters
are persons who craft with their own hands the products they offer for sale.
To qualify as an artisan/crafter (to be referred to by "crafter" henceforth) a majority of the tools and equipment used to produce the craft must require skills and personal handling of the materials.
Grafters selling at the Putnam Farmers' Market will be chosen based on their unique and creative abilities. This aids in offering a well-balanced market to the community and does not inundate the market with one item that EVERYONE sells, but ensures that there is variety for all. The jury's decisions will be based on quality, uniqueness and quantity.
1) All crafts must be hand crafted by the vendor or a member of the vendor's farm or craft unit.
2) Crafts must be the product of a home or cottage-type industry using an intermediate type technology rather than an industrial production - in other words: each item is made by hand individually - not mass produced. To be considered "hand crafted", the item must show evidence of manual skills obtainable only through a significant period of experience and dedication.
3) Crafter must disclose any ready-made objects that they have enhanced
• For example - tie-dyed t-shirts, towels, mass-produced vases, glasses, and the like that have been embellished, decorated or painted, beads and other jewelry parts that have been purchased and not hand produced.
4) All crafts must be of excellent workmanship and design.
5) No mechanical, optical, digital or electronic reproductions allowed.
• Exceptions may be considered only IF the work is derived from the crafter's original work.
6) Photography will be permitted with the following conditions:
• It must be original photography of the vendor,
• "Limited edition reproduction" must be clearly displayed on the reproduced items.
• Greeting cards, postcards and prints are allowed only with prior Jury approval and must be noted on the application.
7) EXAMPLES OF CRAFTS THAT MAY NOT BE ACCEPTABLE ARE:
• Products or pieces assembled from kits
• Plastic beads or plastic canvas
• Plastic and/or synthetic flowers
• Any doll or doll components (head, hands/feet) that is not created by crafter
• Manufactured or imported baskets
• Excessive commercial lace on fabric items
• Using hot glue as the primary method of attached parts
• Tracings of paint by number
• Printed materials
• Ceramics or pottery from commercial (purchased) molds & patterns
• Preprinted fabric craft panels
• Plans or pre-fabricated forms
• Wood carvings using duplicating machines
8) ALL crafts will be juried. Craft vendors who add a new category of crafts after jury selection will still have to have the new item juried. EVERYTHING that a vendor wants to sell MUST go through this process. Jury requires examples of each craft that they want to sell; high quality, recent photographs of the crafts and Craft Jury Description Forms must be submitted with the crafter's Vendor Application. The jury reserves the right to ask for the item to be brought in to be judged.
9) The Putnam Farmer's Market Craft Jury will meet as necessary prior to the start of the
market season. Periodic jury selection for applications submitted during the season will
be conducted on an as-needed basis.
Name/Business Name: ___________________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________________
City: ____________________________________ State: _________________ Zip: _________
Phone: _____________________________ E-mail: ___________________________________
Your Artistic Medium:
___ Ceramics ___ Drawing & Pastels ___ Fiber ___ Glass ___ Jewelry ___ Leather
___ Oil/Acrylics ___ Painting ___ Photography ___ Printmaking/Graphics ___ Sculpture
___ Wearable Art ___ Wood ___ Quilting Other: ___________________________________
Price Range: $ ____________ to $ _______________
Please describe or attach photographs of your art/craft including ALL work you wish to exhibit. Please carefully consider the information that you write and be sure to include all relevant details. Describe your craft, the process and materials used to create you work. During the jury process, in addition to your work or photos, what you write below will become all the information that the craft jurors will shave about your product. Your descriptions are an important aid in helping to evaluate your work.
Describe your craft ______________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Describe the materials used to create your craft _______________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Describe the process that you used to create your craft __________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To qualify as an artisan/crafter (to be referred to by "crafter" henceforth) a majority of the tools and equipment used to produce the craft must require skills and personal handling of the materials.
Grafters selling at the Putnam Farmers' Market will be chosen based on their unique and creative abilities. This aids in offering a well-balanced market to the community and does not inundate the market with one item that EVERYONE sells, but ensures that there is variety for all. The jury's decisions will be based on quality, uniqueness and quantity.
1) All crafts must be hand crafted by the vendor or a member of the vendor's farm or craft unit.
2) Crafts must be the product of a home or cottage-type industry using an intermediate type technology rather than an industrial production - in other words: each item is made by hand individually - not mass produced. To be considered "hand crafted", the item must show evidence of manual skills obtainable only through a significant period of experience and dedication.
3) Crafter must disclose any ready-made objects that they have enhanced
• For example - tie-dyed t-shirts, towels, mass-produced vases, glasses, and the like that have been embellished, decorated or painted, beads and other jewelry parts that have been purchased and not hand produced.
4) All crafts must be of excellent workmanship and design.
5) No mechanical, optical, digital or electronic reproductions allowed.
• Exceptions may be considered only IF the work is derived from the crafter's original work.
6) Photography will be permitted with the following conditions:
• It must be original photography of the vendor,
• "Limited edition reproduction" must be clearly displayed on the reproduced items.
• Greeting cards, postcards and prints are allowed only with prior Jury approval and must be noted on the application.
7) EXAMPLES OF CRAFTS THAT MAY NOT BE ACCEPTABLE ARE:
• Products or pieces assembled from kits
• Plastic beads or plastic canvas
• Plastic and/or synthetic flowers
• Any doll or doll components (head, hands/feet) that is not created by crafter
• Manufactured or imported baskets
• Excessive commercial lace on fabric items
• Using hot glue as the primary method of attached parts
• Tracings of paint by number
• Printed materials
• Ceramics or pottery from commercial (purchased) molds & patterns
• Preprinted fabric craft panels
• Plans or pre-fabricated forms
• Wood carvings using duplicating machines
8) ALL crafts will be juried. Craft vendors who add a new category of crafts after jury selection will still have to have the new item juried. EVERYTHING that a vendor wants to sell MUST go through this process. Jury requires examples of each craft that they want to sell; high quality, recent photographs of the crafts and Craft Jury Description Forms must be submitted with the crafter's Vendor Application. The jury reserves the right to ask for the item to be brought in to be judged.
9) The Putnam Farmer's Market Craft Jury will meet as necessary prior to the start of the
market season. Periodic jury selection for applications submitted during the season will
be conducted on an as-needed basis.
Name/Business Name: ___________________________________________________________
Address: ______________________________________________________________________
City: ____________________________________ State: _________________ Zip: _________
Phone: _____________________________ E-mail: ___________________________________
Your Artistic Medium:
___ Ceramics ___ Drawing & Pastels ___ Fiber ___ Glass ___ Jewelry ___ Leather
___ Oil/Acrylics ___ Painting ___ Photography ___ Printmaking/Graphics ___ Sculpture
___ Wearable Art ___ Wood ___ Quilting Other: ___________________________________
Price Range: $ ____________ to $ _______________
Please describe or attach photographs of your art/craft including ALL work you wish to exhibit. Please carefully consider the information that you write and be sure to include all relevant details. Describe your craft, the process and materials used to create you work. During the jury process, in addition to your work or photos, what you write below will become all the information that the craft jurors will shave about your product. Your descriptions are an important aid in helping to evaluate your work.
Describe your craft ______________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Describe the materials used to create your craft _______________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Describe the process that you used to create your craft __________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
