Does anyone think people would pay good money for a hand made woven baby blanket in lovely colours and textures? As a gift perhaps?

Or rather, how much would one pay?

For use rather than show? You’d be looking at getting a CE mark and all that?

Is this hand woven on a traditional loom?

if they’re made out of antibacterial/non-allergenic super fibres, tested to be machine-washable hundreds and hundreds of times without shrinking or twisting/warping…. maybe.

as for moneyz, i’ll give you 50p and a twix*

*possibly not a twix, you might get lucky and it could be a dairy milk caramel bar.

will they be sick and snot proof?

Is this hand woven on a traditional loom?

Yes.

They will be properly washable of course.

You’d be looking at getting a CE mark and all that?

I’m not aware that everything that comes into contact with a baby must be CE marked.

I imagine it doesn’t but I can see the sort of people who are going to pay *lots* for posh blankets will be quite, errm, fussy.

Baby blankets are not on the list of things requiring CE marking according to Wiki.

if i was paying decent moneys for a handmade blanket i’d want to know they’ve been properly tested that they can handle being machine washed and tumble dryed a good couple of hundred times…. considering the amount of juices that fall out of a baby on a daily basis!

My mum makes similar and charges £30

How does she make them BM? Knitted, woven, sewn?

i’d want to know they’ve been properly tested that they can handle being machine washed and tumble dryed a good couple of hundred times

I’d just label them up as handwash only & not suitable for tumble drying, problem solved.

This is what a lot of clothing manufacturers seem to do as a “catch-all” approach, despite the fact that machine washing and tumble-drying their stuff is perfectly ok.

molgrips – Member

Does anyone think people would pay good money for a hand made woven baby blanket in lovely colours and textures? As a gift perhaps?

Or rather, how much would one pay?

Just an observation:

Step daughter has a baby on the way, both soon to be grandmothers immediately reached for the wool as soon as they heard the news – seems to be something that people still like to make themselves.

That’s a good thing though, if people are used to home-made items then they are more likley to buy home-made imo. If they don’t have a grandparent who wants to make one.

My wife has just finished knitting a blanket for our new niece and IIRC she’s spent about £50 just on the wool (some fancy ultrafine merino IIRC) and many many hours knitting it. So I guess if you were to charge for the cost it’d be quite ridiculous, but that’s not really what it’s about…

skipping briefly on….

you could always google ‘handmade baby blankets’ where there are many people making just that short of thing. that said you can, as you surely must be at this stage now, laugh at how wide a definition ‘handmade’ is.

however, here’s one that should be right up your/her street for starters
http://www.beadsmoorewoventextiles.co.uk/baby-blankets.html

is she dyeing yet? something to think about? (good fun but stinky!)

So I guess if you were to charge for the cost it’d be quite ridiculous

We can probably do them for £50-60. She doesn’t knit, she weaves, it’s a lot faster.

Done lots of googling already for the scarves and whatnot. Prices vary from comparable to about 3x what we charge.

my own wee google would suggest there’s a market for such things tho as always it’s as much about marketing as market. pricing’s always tricky but you’re never going to be as cheap as someone who outsources.

so far i’ve never been asked to make any form of blanket for what it’s worth…

but if i was to do such a thing, and now you’ve mentioned it, i might, it’d cost substantially more than the above link which should give you more than enough clues re method and material!

Why would it cost you more?

not because of how it’s made but what it’s made from

If only i knew someone on here who was making them. 😕
Do you know anyone you could recommend molgrips? 😉

How does she make them BM? Knitted, woven, sewn?

I think she makes them a couple of different ways, I’ll check with her

With regards to CE marks and all that, the only considerations i can think of from a safety point of view are fibre shedding and ribbons.

As babies tend to suck and chew things yarns for babies tend to be made so as not to shed lots of fibers, don’t want the little darlings getting fur balls. Also Ribbons and cords(not such and issue with a blanket) needs to be securely attached and not of a length a child can garrot itself with.

Strangely the second of those points is a regulation for manufactured clothes – but isn’t noted on some knitting patterns for babies. I check patterns before publications for a large pattern house and am often surprised that the same rules dont seem to apply – even if only to add them as guidance.

Sounds lovely though – any pictures?

Wench (can I call you that?) at risk of being accused of flogging my wares yet again on STW, email me for some pics and links – in profile.

Interesting job you have btw, can’t beat STW for specialist advice 🙂

Mum knits and crochets them. She doesn’t do it for profit more as a hobby but £30 covers the costs of material generally but not her time. So I’ve been informed

I imagine it doesn’t but I can see the sort of people who are going to pay *lots* for posh blankets will be quite, errm, fussy.

Call it ‘organic’, rub a bit of muck into it, and they’ll lap it up.

Parents who have the money would love something like a handmade baby blanket. As usual it’s getting your product known. However it’s all time consuming with very little profit.

I make many children’s items, from bunting to nursery pump bags, it’s very hard to make any money when goods can be bought cheaply from places like China, even when the items are handmade and produced from British materials.