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A practical guide to starting a craft business in South Africa — validating demand before spending, the admin that actually matters, pricing, and knowing when to go full-time.
Category / Craft & DIY
DTF and sublimation are not competing methods — they do different jobs. The seven differences that decide which one a job needs, plus honest running costs and durability.
Most South African crafters undercharge, and it is rarely a confidence problem — it is a maths problem. Seven pricing formulas, worked examples, and the costs makers routinely forget.
Choosing a heat press for a small craft business — clamshell vs swing-away, plate size, even heat, pressure control, and the specification claims worth ignoring.
You do not need a camera or a studio. Ten practical product photography techniques for crafters shooting on a phone — light, backgrounds, angles, editing and the mistakes that cost sales.
A practical sublimation printing guide for South African crafters — the kit that matters, the settings that work, the mistakes that waste blanks, and how to fix faded, ghosted and blotchy prints.
What actually determines whether a craft market stall makes money — choosing the right market, stall layout, pricing, card payments, and the mistakes that cost first-timers their table fee.