Our theme for the 2019 Holiday Handmade Cavalcade is “coming together.” In the age of the Internet, this notion has undergone a radical readjustment. Even when we are oceans apart, we can communicate with an immediacy that was unimaginable not so long ago.

For the members of the NY Handmade Collective, togetherness takes many forms. We interact with and support each other in both real and virtual spaces. In fact, we came into being as a team of sellers on Etsy, the online headquarters for all things craft, and we’re thrilled to have them as a presenting sponsor for this year’s Cavalcade.

As the world’s most vibrant online marketplace for handmade, Etsy is the ultimate gathering cyber-place for people who make things and people who love things that are made by hand. Its platform plays an important role in creating opportunities for Internet shoppers everywhere to find and support independent makers. In the case of the NY Handmade Collective, it allowed us to find each other!