Selling Vintage Knitting Patterns

Not only can you sell your hand crated goods online, you can make money from selling patterns.
You could sell your own knitting or crochet patterns online or, if you have some vintage knitting patterns that you don't need, you could consider selling those. There is a is a huge market for them.

Read on to find out the best places to sell vintage knitting patterns online.

One way to sell vintage knitting patterns is on good old Ebay I personally buy patterns from charity shops, knit them and then when no longer needed I auction them off there. Some of them do really well, in particular some 1980s ones I stumbled across for 30p each featuring retro characters such as Care Bears and My Little Pony. One of my 30p charity shop finds went for 28 pounds!

If you search for vintage knitting patterns on Ebay you will see that as well as original patterns, you can buy photocopies of vintage knitting patterns, as well as CDs with vintage knitting pattern collections. More recently Ebay allowed sellers to start listing downloadable PDF files and yes I have spotted vintage knitting patterns cropping up for sale in that format too.

Etsy is of course the most well known place for buying and selling vintage goods, and there are choc loads of vintage knitting patterns available there. Etsy is a super place for selling your vintage knitting patterns, it is somehow more highly regarded than Ebay and you can command higher prices. The footfall is less than Ebay, and you may have to wait longer for a sale, however it is a definite go to website for dedicated craters.

Etsy makes it really easy to sell digital files, and if you would like to sell your vintage knitting patterns digitally, this is the place to be. This pattern for a mans jumper is a best seller. People love to knit vintage and retro styles. These styles just never go out of fashion.

Some shops on Etsy specialise in vintage toys knitting patterns and I love to peruse this Etsy store with amazing wartime patterns.

Regarding the sale of copied vintage patterns, there may be copyright issues. Depending on where you live, there are set dates where vintage patterns pass into the public domain and therefore you are free to distribute anything published before this date, including distributing to sell for profit. I would really recommend checking on this information before selling copies of files.

You are completely free to sell physical, original, knitting patterns on Ebay, Etsy, and any other websites and indeed many buyers will only buy original knitting patterns. There are thousands of collectors out there, and they wouldn't be interested in photocopied documents.

If you would prefer to sell your vintage patterns locally rather than on an online sales platform, I would recommend giving  Preloved a try. I have personally bought several items from this website, and there are currently plenty of knitting patterns listed there.

Many vintage dealers regularly search Preloved and may offer to buy your goods either cash on collection or by post. My friend actually bought her pet cat on this website, its a treasure trove of used and vintage items.  It is definitely worth  a look when seeking to buy or sell anything vintage.