Your art deserves to be ✨found✨
Craft & Master exists to connect extraordinary artists with the people who've been waiting for exactly what you create
but they just didn't know where to look👀
We're a curated marketplace for independent artists making handmade craft kits.
Here's what curation actually looks like: we only work with artists we're genuinely excited about. And genuinely excited means staying up way too late thinking up ways to introduce you to the people who need to know you exist. It means buying, making and filming your kit ourselves if you need help making content.
We might have a problem. We're fine with it!
If you make things that are weird, nerdy or beautiful and made with your whole heart then we would very much like to talk with you.
What you actually pay
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Etsy
- transaction fee 6.5%
- payment processing 3-6.5% + $.25
- listing fee - 15p per item every 4 months
- offsite ads 12–15%
Total: 10–29%
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Craft & Master
- commission15%
- listing fee —
- subscription —
- ad fees —
Total - 15% -only when you sell
What working with us looks like
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📣 Active championing
Spotlights, social content, storytelling. We introduce you to the people who were made to love your work. You're not listed and forgotten.
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💸No upfront fees. Ever.
We don't get paid until you do. No listing fees, no setup costs, no monthly charges, just a commission on what we actually sell together. Your risk stays low while you find out if this community is right for your work. We think that's how it should be.
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🌿An aligned community
Our audience is nerdy, alternative, neurodivergent, and leftist values-driven. They buy from artists they trust. We help build that trust.
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🤝A real human relationship
You won't be corresponding with a support ticket. You'll be talking to Melany, the founder, who will actually know your work.
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🛠️ Operational support
Our founder has a background in marketing and business operations. Beyond the marketplace, we can help with things most platforms never offer.
A note from the Founder
I built Craft & Master because I kept finding artists making the kind of work that stops you in your tracks. Work you immediately send to three people because you can't believe they don't already know about this person. And then I'd think: why don't they? Why is this extraordinarily specific human making extraordinarily specific things, and the right people still haven't found them?
That's the gap I'm trying to close. And I think I'm the person for it.
Twenty years in project management and business operations. A background in performance. A lot of hours spent making things: from cross stitch, to macarons to the occasional chainmail headdress.
Which means I understand both sides of this: the work that goes into making something real, and the work that goes into getting the right people to care about it.
So I read every application myself. I reply personally, having actually looked at your work. If the timing isn't right, I'll tell you honestly. And if it is then the audience on the other side of this marketplace has been waiting for someone like you. I'm so happy to be the one who introduces you to each other.