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Craft fairs by the numbers
For hip craft fairs, business is booming. Here's how the numbers add up.
3 Number of Etsy employees during its 2005 launch
9 Number of years Renegade Craft Fair—one of the first festivals selling hipster handmade goods—has been in existence
314 million The dollar amount handcraft-hawking website Etsy made six years after launching
250 Number of vendors Renegade Craft Fair turned down for its winter market (150 were accepted)
3.5 Percentage Etsy takes from each sale
13 The age of Urban Folk Circuit’s youngest seller. She hawks accessories and tank tops with the product name “Awesomefultasticaliscious” alongside her dad, who creates cork-snout ceramic pigs.
5 or 6 Number of Renegade judges who look at every single submission
1–300 The approximate price range, in dollars, of goods sold at Renegade Craft Fair
