Exciting news artists! Starting today, select home decor and and bedding products are now available for purchase directly on Spoonflower, which means customers can now seamlessly shop your designs on handmade products for the home. We’ve rounded up three of our top tips to help your designs shine on the newest products to join Spoonflower: duvet covers, sheet sets and pillow shams. For an added bonus, hop on over to Anda Corrie’s Procreate tutorial to learn how you can design custom bedding from the comfort of your couch (or bed)!
1. Go Big
Duvet covers range from 68″ x 86″ – 108″ x 92” (172.72 cm x 218.44 cm – 274.32 cm x 233.68 cm) which means your design can span a wide surface area. Duvet covers look best when the design is larger in scale and we suggest a repeating pattern that is 24” (60.96 cm) across. In Allison Janssen’s duvet cover above, the rainbow motifs in her design are roughly 12″ wide x 9″ tall (30.48 cm wide x 22.86 cm tall) and the entire design repeats every 23″ (58.42 cm).
Please limit rescale requests to only 10 total new design IDs per week. Adding designs is a manual process and takes additional time. Check out this help article for more about rescales.
Pro tips:
“Large scale” and “jumbo” will help shoppers easily find large-scale designs.
24” repeating designs works great for a large-scale wallpaper application.
2. Create a Collection
The launch of bedding on Spoonflower is a great opportunity to check in and see if your designs have been organized in collections. Why design in collections? For customers shopping for bedding, making a collection of coordinating designs makes your collection creates a one-stop-shop for cohesive bedding. This means your customer is more likely to outfit their entire bed with all of your designs (i.e., more earned commissions!) Think about alternate colorways and coordinating designs that complete your bedding look. Be sure to include smaller motifs, too, as they are a great option for sheet sets.
Pro tip: Create a collection inspired by your best-selling designs.
3. Promote Your Designs on Bedding
With the addition of home decor products on Spoonflower, your customers can now enjoy a seamless experience for finding their favorite designs from your shop on products to outfit their home, no sewing required. Let your community know by promoting your new bedding products on social media with the bedding renders found in your Spoonflower shop. To access the renders, visit the products page of a specific design, right click on the image and select save image on the specific product you’d like to promote. Don’t forget to tag your photos with #spoonflowerhome!
For an added touch, use the Spoonflower home decor overlay! In the example below, a duvet cover and sheet set render of crystal_walen’s Tribal Geometric Gold feature a Spoonflower home decor overlay.
Pro tip: To use the overlay, download the folder of overlays. Place your bedding renders featuring your designs under the copy layer of one (or more) of the provided graphics. You’re now ready to promote your designs on a new product!
Designer Commissions
Spoonflower home decor sales will display in millimeter increments. The bonus? You’ll be able to see the name of the user who purchased your item, which makes it easier to send a thank you note!
As always, designers earn up to 15% commission on each sale in addition to the Everyday Designer Discount of 10% off the retail price of wallpaper or fabric larger than a swatch—whether that’s yardage or the amount used to make a home decor product.
Want even more designer tips to help market your Spoonflower shop? Be sure to check out the Spoonflower Seller Handbook, a digital series teaching you how to stand out in a marketplace that’s growing by the minute.
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2 comments
How much $ does the average designer earn from using SpoonFlower?
Hi Paula!
That’s a very good question! However, seeing that we have thousands of artists on Spoonflower, there is no one size fits all answer as our Marketplace features hobbyists and full-time artists and everyone in between. The answer for you depends on a variety of things ranging for starters from how you plan to use Spoonflower to sell your work, your marketing strategy (not that you necessarily need one—it varies for everyone!) to how you make your work visible.
There are tons of related resources to help you start your shop here on the blog and at our Help Center too!
Best,
Betsy
Spoonflower
Hi! You recommend creating “collections.” However, the store page does not make “collections” a prominent feature. I create in collections exclusively and wish I could set up my shop to show the collections instead of the individual designs. Maybe I missed something in setting up my shop?
Hi Amy,
Thanks so much for your helpful feedback! Our engineering team is working daily on creating site updates that provide a better user experience for our customers and artists. At the moment you are correct that there isn’t an option to display your collections rather than individual designs in your shop, but this would definitely be a useful feature to include especially for artists like yourself who utilize collections quite often. I will forward your suggestion— again, thank you for your comment! 🙂
Crafty regards,
Anna
Spoonflower
Hello team,
I am a new joinee at Spoonflower, I happen to see an artist work on FB and she introduced me to this amazing portal.
I am having so much fun learning from the blogs and participating in the weekly challenges.
It’s an organic experience for me as an illustrator.
Thanks,
Rasika
Hi Rasika, and welcome to Spoonflower!
That’s great you’re participating in the design challenges, that is a fantastic way to get involved here!
Best,
Betsy
Spoonflower
I have a bed linen design that I want to be able to implement on bed sheets, and I also want a company that is willing to partner up with me. I have had this idea for about 10 years now but when I lost my Mother, I just put it behind me, and last night, my Mother came to me in my dream and asked me what I was going to do about my bed linen design, so I’m just trying to find out how to make it come into a reality. I just need for someone to open a window for me and assist me with direction
Hi Alysia!
We have a whole heap of design tutorials that you can use that could help you on your journey, both linked in this post and over here: https://blog.spoonflower.com/category/tutorials/design-tutorials/
Best,
Betsy
Spoonflower
Hello, can you please direct me to the handbook that include the actual product manufacturing of the designs?
Thank you,
Lillian
Hi Lillian,
Thanks for your question! It sounds like you may be looking for the Spoonflower Handbook which you can find here. I hope that helps, but if you have any more questions don’t hesitate to ask!
Best Regards,
-Meredith F.
Spoonflower
I didn’t know about all of this possibilities! This is a very clear and complete guide. Thanks for the support!
The commission structure chart in this article is confusing. Do we earn 10%, 11%, 13% or 15%?
Hi Kristen,
We apologize for the confusion! All designers will automatically earn a 10% commission but there are bonus commissions if you reach a certain sales threshold. More details about bonus commissions can be found here. I hope that helps, but if you have any more questions don’t hesitate to ask!