Hello. I am looking to expand my range in homeware and gifts. I currently sell tea towels, greetings cards, notebooks and cushion covers. It is a big investment so don’t want to get it wrong. I am thinking mugs but any advice would be really helpful.
Thank you
Tammie Norries
I think your work is really distinctive, well photographed and with interesting titles. I am presuming that you would be buying-in blank mugs and printing your designs on, rather than making the mug itself and decorating it with a design. If so, it would be a good and natural extension to your range, but you obviously need to consider the cost of the mug blanks, against what you are thinking of charging the customer, and also the fact that they are obviously more fragile than your other items, and heavier too, so postage and packing would be a factor. Additionally, Royal Mail and Parcelforce do not cover you for breakages in items made of ceramics and glass, and as a ceramics maker, I have not found any courier company that will insure for breakages either. So you need to pack very well!
Thank you so much for your advice and help. That is very useful thank you so much.