Templates for Makers.

A curated set of 17 workbooks — and the guides that go with them — for people who make the thing themselves. Cost a batch from what it actually consumes, keep a materials drawer that counts itself down, and price a catalog that still holds when a supplier raises a price.

Costed at the bench, not at the till

Most selling advice starts after the thing exists. This collection starts before it does — at the pour, the kiln, the bench pin, the needles, the print bed. That is where the numbers that decide your margin are actually set, and where a generic pricing template stops being useful: you buy wax by the pound and pour it by the jar, silver by the troy ounce and set it by the gram, glaze by the bucket and brush it by the piece.

So these are per-craft files. Each one knows the units its craft is really bought and spent in, keeps the batch and lot records that craft needs, and turns them into a cost per unit you can defend — then into a price you can hold at any counter. If you want the selling side instead, the craft-seller and Etsy-seller collections cover the table and the shop.

And if you want the studio side whole rather than a file at a time, the Maker’s Complete Business System gathers fourteen of these into one purchase — start it, run it, price it, sell it, handle it, cover it — with a control panel that routes each job to the right file and works out the one number none of them can see on its own: what an hour of your work is actually paying you.

And when the bench stops being yours alone — a first helper, a week away, an order that has to go out while you are ill — the method has to come out of your head and onto a page. Start with what an SOP is and what a work instruction adds, then how to write one somebody else can follow. The free one-page SOP template is the form itself, shown filled in.