About Etsy

Etsy.com is an online marketplace and community for independent makers and sellers of handmade and vintage goods. We are the World’s handmade marketplace. Our mission is to empower people to change the way the world’s economy works.

Handmade is more then a means of production, it is a way of living.

We choose to live handmade because:

- We want to rebuild human-scale economies around the world
- We want to know who is making our stuff and how they are doing it
- We support self-reliance, independence, and the quest to make one’s own life
- We believe making things makes us human
- We think work should be meaningful
- We think people are more important than profits
- We want to stop the machines, exchanging mass production for production by the masses
- We believe Art and Fashion do not equal Industry
- Anything else seems unethical, unsustainable, and unfun

We are Etsy, We choose to live handmade.