{"id":9941,"date":"2020-06-23T06:59:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=9941"},"modified":"2020-06-23T06:58:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:58:57","slug":"it-isnt-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2020\/06\/23\/it-isnt-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"It isn’t ok"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I saw a photo of an embroidery that someone had done, and rightly, they were very proud of it. It was beautifully worked.<\/p>\n

They said that they had found the design on Pinterest, and they didn\u2019t know who the designer was.<\/p>\n

This made me incredibly sad, and sat extremely uncomfortably for me.<\/p>\n

There is a designer out there who has not received just payment for their work. There is a stitcher out there who is quite happy to not pay the designer.<\/p>\n

I know this happens everywhere. I know this happens all the time in the needlework world.<\/p>\n

\"smoyg

Sm\u00f8yg proofs from the printer, for me to check. Just one small part of the process of writing a book.<\/p><\/div>\n

I spend thousands of hours working on my books, which involves research, problem solving, designing, stitching, writing, photographing, and illustrating, amongst other things. I also spend many hours on my designs which are not part of my books.<\/p>\n

Do I deserve to receive payment for these if you want to use my book or use my design? I think so.<\/p>\n

Why do so many people think it is ok not to pay others for their work?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t understand when it became ok to steal. It sounds harsh, but that\u2019s what it is.<\/p>\n

We should not be accepting that this is ok in the needlework world. It isn\u2019t ok to not pay your plumber. It isn\u2019t ok to steal the house plans the architect has drawn up. It isn\u2019t ok to steal your groceries.<\/p>\n

So why is it ok to steal needlework designs and use pirated copies of books, charts and designs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I saw a photo of an embroidery that someone had done, and rightly, they were very proud of it. It was beautifully worked.<\/p>\n

They said that they had found the design on Pinterest, and they didn\u2019t know who the designer was.<\/p>\n

This made me incredibly sad, and sat extremely uncomfortably for me.<\/p>\n

There is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9952,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}