Check out BurdaStyle, a new community project of Hubert Burda Media Marketing & Communications, which was launched as beta on January 21st, 2007. What makes it especially interesting is the fact that Burda is the first established pattern publisher to release its designs under a creative commons license, allowing members of the public to download free patterns from the pattern database and market their BurdaStyle creations in limited editions. A couple of delicious quotes from their about page:
"There are many ways to be a part of BurdaStyle. Discuss sewing tricks and fixes with members of the BurdaStyle community. Add your sewing term definitions to the ones in our Sewpedia, or check out tips in our user-generated photo and video How Tos. Explore other users' creations in the Gallery, and upload photos of your own. You can even barter or sell what you make through BurdaStyle.We like to think of this website as a virtual sewing circle, an open-source hub of ideas, expertise, and amazing patterns you can download and sew at home. We want you to learn something new every time you visit BurdaStyle. We want this website to inspire you. And most importantly, we want you to get involved: We're offering our ideas, expertise and downloadable patterns to the BurdaStyle community, and we hope that you'll contribute, too.
It's not entirely coincidental that BurdaStyle headquarters shares office space with Etsy.com. Not only is BurdaStyle's selling enabled through Etsy - when users put one of their designs up for sale, it's sold through the Etsy.com website - but we like to think that both BurdaStyle and Etsy are in the business of using new technology to drive old-fashioned craft."
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