Cottage Industries

Done By: Daniel Hung Eleidy Hernandez Seanne Pernillo Alexia Hernandez Tatiana Chicas

What Are Cottage Industries?

A Cottage Industry is an industry whereby the products made or the services offered are home-based. This means all operations are carried out right at home. Products made are often very distinct and original, but are not produced in a mass amount. Cottage Industries are at a disadvantage when competing with factory-based companies because of output differences.

Cottage Industry: Embroidery

History:
Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. Embroidery is most often recommended for caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denim, stockings, and golf shirts. Embroidery and most other fiber and needlework arts are believed to originate in the Orient and Middle East. Primitive humankind quickly found that the stitches used to join animal skins together could also be used for embellishment. During 5000 and 6000B.C, there was Chinese bead embroidery in Siberia. This included drilled shells stitched with unique decorative designs onto animal hides. In 500A.D, Mosaics of Byzantium, there was cloth embroidery with silk, precious stones and pearls. It can be said that tradition of Chinese bead embroidery is origin of embroidery today. History depicts people of ancient civilizations wearing embroidered clothing over 3000 years ago. Excavations have revealed high levels of thread embroidery from the ancient times. Including pure gold thread embroidery and woven shrouds in the tomb of Empress Honorius in 400A.D. The gold threads were melted down and they weighed about 36 pounds in pure metal.

Why the Entrepreneur Would Want To Start This Business?

The Entrepreneur would want to start an embroidery business in order to pass on a family custom or tradition. Embroidery may be a very powerful aspect in the entrepreneurs heritage and he might want to pass it on. Another reason that the entrepreneur may want to start this business can be that he has interest in this hobby and wants to make some extra money on the side.

Products and Services Offered:

The products that embroidery offers are custom-made, uniquely designed garments and hangings. Customers can place and order of what design they would want and we would embroider upon request. Clothes, bed-sheets, carpets, caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denim, stockings, and golf shirts and many more can be used to embroider. Customers can bring in their own materials or purchase from the establishment. The time taken to complete the embroidery depends on the size of the cloth and design of the embroidery.

5. A Cottage industry can provide an entrepreneur with a source of employment, meaning that he/she is self employed. They may serve to supplement a regular income. Also its equipment is not a costly saving them money. Embroidery usually sells a lot to tourists because of the quality work done. Cottage industries also provide important linkages to tourism and craft market industries. They also receive financial support sometimes by the government.

6. Embroidery is a cottage industry that doesnt require the entrepreneur to expand only in size but also in quality of work (marketing). Promoting the industries is One of the most important keys to the success of any business is marketing which expands the business. In order to make potential customers aware of a new business, advertising and promotion are essential. That's because a new business needs a direct line of communication about the product to potential customers. Most small businesses usually advertise in the following media: Newspapers Radio Direct Mail Yellow Pages Magazines Internet 7. Tourism is an important contributor to the economy because they like buying handmade craft. 8. Embroidery designs are the way to add excellence and creativity to you garments and
several other form of products. It is a way to give a professional and sophisticated outlook to your products. Embroidery design is used to create eye-catching effects and striking images on the garments, clothing and several forms of outfits.

Advantage: the art illustrations, styles and craft it offers to the products. Most garment and fabric products are enhanced by the use of embroidery designs . Whether you are using products such as caps, hats, gloves or clothing goods or the business is of house hold products such as bed sheets, blankets, carpets etc the embroidery offering can enhance the look of every garment products.

That there are also software's that helps to create several design patterns for embroidery designs and these design can even be copied for online resources and stitched to the desire product.

DISVANTAGE.
Is to convert the digital form of designs into a format in which it is easily sewed. This feature may require some delicacy and technical skills and consume much time. -Detail embroidery designs and pattern are very hard to digitize and sometime the price of such embroidery is high and not feasible for most clothing and garment businesses. -The time delays in which the embroidery is design and then sewed sometimes hinder the speed in which products are consumed. -If the embroidery design does not give the desire output then all the time money and effort in designing of the embroidery and implementing it is wasted.

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