Ravelry is a social network for knitters, crocheters and fiber lovers in general. Released in May 2007 . It works as an organizing tool for a variety of fiber arts, including knitting, crocheting, spinning and weaving. Where members share their projects, ideas, and their collection of yarn, fiber, and tools through the various components. As of March 8, 2013 , Ravelry had more than 3 million members worldwide.
Summary
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- 1 Development
- 2 How does it work?
- 3 Sources
- 4 External Links
Development
The married couple of Casey and Jessica Forbes founded Ravelry in May 2007 . His idea was to create a web presence for all fiber artists. Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters , designers , spinners, dry cleaners to keep track of their threads, tools, and pattern information, as well as look to others to share ideas and inspiration. In addition to providing service as a social network where its users can talk about their hobby, Ravelry facilitates the creation of micro businesses allowing its users to sell their wool and patterns, as well as promoting small and large companies in the sector that request it. It is a great market niche in which anyone with a product can find their space.
How does it work?
Once you register to enter (choose your username well, it cannot be changed), you will find a home screen with several tabs:
- My notebook: Your personal space. Here you can add your projects and comment on possible problems you may have encountered during the process, upload photos of your yarn collection. There is a space to store your favorite yarns and patterns from the page, add to the queue projects that you want to knit and include patterns that you would like to have in a wish list. You can also link your blog or personal page, find your friends or make new friends. The page has an internal mail to exchange messages with other users.
- Patterns: There are patterns here, literally millions of knitting and crochet patterns. There is a search engine where you can make generic searches or by specific topic, and a very useful filter that will help you find what you are looking for easily. You can further narrow your search by choosing whether you prefer free or paid knitting or crochet patterns. You can select the type, thickness or length of the yarn you have, by needle number. The possibilities are virtually endless.
- Yarns: The yarn database par excellence. With its search engine you can find any yarn and find out its qualities from the users themselves, in addition to finding inspiration in their projects.
- People: Here you can find site users, friends or people you follow.
- Forums: The forum site, where you can find your favorite forums or participate in new sites.
- Groups: A place to get lost and meet new people, where all the existing groups in Ravelry reside. There are groups of spinners and dyers, groups created by designers where mysterious patterns are tried on, groups of people who weave the same garment and share their experience.
- Shop: Ravelry’s Shop
