January’s Las Vegas Market will offer more handcrafted products and events to attendees, as the maker movement fuels unprecedented growth in artisan-crafted gift and home décor products.

The newly expanded Handmade category at The Pavilions is expected to be completely sold-out in January, and Discoveries, The Antique Vintage Marketplace has doubled in size in one year, said Dorothy Belshaw, president of Gift & Home Décor, International Market Centers.

Las Vegas Market is also developing a number of maker-focused educational offerings and special events to complement the handcrafted products in both permanent showrooms and temporary exhibition space.

“The burgeoning ‘Maker Movement’ is alive and well at Las Vegas Market,” Belshaw said. “We will have a record number of artisans and makers at the Winter 2017 Market across both permanent showrooms and temporary exhibits.”

Two new and expanding showrooms dedicated to handcrafted merchandise will be featured on C11 in January, and a special C11 escalator lobby display will highlight key handmade offerings. The American Made Collective also is nearly doubling its showroom on C11 to feature 18 American-made artists in 3,636-square feet. Handcrafted gifts and home décor products also will be featured in temporary exhibition space in The Pavilions At Las Vegas Market for Winter Market.

In addition, Las Vegas Market has partnered with CRAFT (Craft Retailers & Artists for Tomorrow), a nonprofit trade organization for the business of handmade American crafts. CRAFT is developing a series of special programming for retailers and exhibitors during Winter Market, including a “Meet the Makers” segment, and Las Vegas Market has become a major sponsor of American Craft Week, an annual celebration of made-in-the-USA crafts held each October.

(Source: hfndigital.com  Author: Andrea Lillo)