Wednesday, 22 January 2014 00:00
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Coats plc, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, is launching makeitcoats.com, a new web portal that provides an unparalleled digital experience to inspire, inform and teach textile crafters with a passion for sewing, quilting, knitting, crocheting and embroidery.
The portal includes over 250 crafting projects, 90 films and more than 4,000 product pages as well as inspirational mood boards, articles and questions and answers. The responsive design means that the content fully adapts itself to be viewed equally well on a desk top computer, tablet or smartphone. There is a focus on user generated content with crafters being able to add individual comments and ratings to featured patterns, products and projects.
On entering the site, crafters can choose to explore four main areas:
Discover more about hundreds of free crafting projects, articles, inspirational mood boards of themed collections and meet designers.
Learn a new technique through the virtual tutorials, how to care and repair and have questions answered in the ‘frequently asked questions’ section e.g. ‘How do I make a hem invisible?’
Share through blogs and events related to the world of crafting.
Product Explorer provides a guide through a comprehensive catalogue of Coats Crafts products.
The makeitcoats.com portal brings to life the new Coats brand identity, designed to open the door to a world of inspiration and creativity and to bring together, under one roof, some of the most respected brands within the textile crafts industry (for instance Anchor, Red Heart, Rowan and Schachenmayr). The call to action ‘make it’ encourages consumers to choose Coats as their trusted craft partner and places it at the heart of the textiles crafts making process.
Users can also choose to navigate the site by crafting technique (sewing and quilting, knitting, crocheting or embroidery) or to immerse themselves in the creative worlds of the FreeSpirit and Anchor brands. The initial focus for makeitcoats.com will predominantly be on sewing and quilting, crochet and embroidery, and will provide links with our existing hand knitting brands sites (Red Heart, Rowan and Schachenmayr).
Coats plc Chief Commercial Officer Frazer Smith said: “Our makeitcoats.com web portal builds on the recent launch of the new Coats Crafts branding. The portal provides inspiration, guidance and support to crafters and confirms Coats’ reputation as the number one global player in the textiles crafts market.”
The site has dedicated areas for both the UK and the US markets, where the content is tailored towards the most popular types of crafting in each market. The UK site has additional content on crochet and embroidery while the US site has a greater focus on sewing and quilting. Users can toggle between the content of two sites via a button on the navigation bar.
To find out more visit www.makeitcoats.com and to download a high resolution screenshot of the portal go to: www.coats.com/imagelibrary.
