The Creative Workforce: Spoonflower

Stephen Fraser is one of the founders of Spoonflower, an on-demand custom fabric company founded in 2008 in a former sock mill in Mebane. Now located in Durham, Spoonflower boasts more than 100,000 users drawn to its website through word of mouth via the "craft blogosphere." Twenty-five percent of the company's business comes from dozens of countries overseas, and the growing Spoonflower community participates in a popular weekly fabric design contest.

Artistic talent is becoming an asset to a wide range of employers who thrive on creative approaches to their businesses and value the right-brain skills associated with the arts. Arts-related industries can be catalysts for high-skill employment in sectors such as technology. Learn more about these workers at http://www.ncarts.org/creative_economy.

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[Stan Schultz]

Very exciting!

[27cynthia]

They have quilting cotton, cotton jersey, linen, silk and more. Look at their website



[Karen Kane]

what kind of fabric do they print on?

[bluerosehunter]

am i the only one having trouble with the sound?

[Guinnie]

Good news for North Carolina

[Ryan Claytor]

Wow! This is incredible. I just discovered SpoonFlower yesterday. I had no idea such a business existed! It's great to hear this venture is going so well.

Ryan Claytor

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