1
Tell us about your craft
A short conversation and a few photos. Five minutes. This is how the curator gets to know your work before anything goes out.
FOR MAKERS
We find the demand, you bring your craft.
We are onboarding a small founding group of makers, one at a time. If you join it, each week you will see where the people who love what you make are already paying attention. You still write. You still make. You just stop guessing where to point your voice.
Your voice. Our research.
You know how to make it. We know where people are looking for it.
Trestle does the research and hands you the picture. You write, you make, you decide what to post.
Trestle watches what people in your craft are searching for and asking about. Today that research runs on Google search. Pinterest and Reddit follow once our access to them is real, and we will say so plainly when they do. Each week, founding makers get that picture. Plain English, ready to use. You decide what to do with it.
WHAT MAKERS GET
What Trestle will hand you each week
Your weekly research brief
What people in your craft are searching for on Google right now. We start there, with Pinterest and Reddit coming.
Structural content guidance
How to write to those signals. Where to post. What tone to use on each platform. You write it; Trestle tells you where to aim.
Research you can count on
The same brief, week after week. The promise is the research showing up reliably. What you do with it is yours.
A profile in one place
Your products, your photos, your shop links, and your market schedule, kept together and ready when discovery opens.
HOW IT WORKS
How it works
2
Your weekly brief arrives
When your place opens, the same picture arrives each week: what people in your craft are searching for and asking about right now. Plain English, ready to use.
3
You decide where to point your voice
You get the research. You choose what to post and where. Your voice stays yours.
A SAMPLE BRIEF
This is what a weekly brief looks like
A worked example, written by the curator to show the format for a ceramicist. It is not research from a live week, and the maker in it is not real.
Sample · Week of 6 July · About 3 minutes
Buyers want mugs that feel made for winter
People in your craft searched a lot for warm winter mugs this month. They asked Google for cosy stoneware and speckled glazes. Your hand-thrown pieces fit this well. This is a good week to show your warmest work.
Try this
Show one mug you would reach for on a cold morning.
Patterns worth your time
Warm winter mugs
People want mugs that feel cosy and hand-made.
Seen in searches: “cosy stoneware mug” · “speckled glaze mug” · Google
Gift sets for the season
People look for small sets they can give as gifts.
Seen in searches: “handmade pottery gift set” · “ceramic gift for her” · Google
Take care, and enjoy the making. From the curator at Trestle.
WHAT TRESTLE DOES NOT DO
The brief has edges. On purpose.
It does not write for you
No posts, captions, or replies are written for you. The words stay yours.
It does not act for you
Trestle never posts anywhere or contacts anyone on your behalf.
It does not promise results
No sales numbers, follower counts, or reach claims. The promise is the research arriving reliably.
It names its sources honestly
Google search is the active source today. Pinterest and Reddit are named only when they are truly running.
YOUR CRAFT, YOUR VOICE
Your craft, presented properly.
Every maker on Trestle is introduced to buyers through real photography and the context that makes someone stop and read. The curator uses what you share: your photos and your own description of why you make what you make. That is how your work gets presented with the care it deserves.
Real workshop photography
Your photos, taken at the wheel or at the stall. Never stock. Never staged by us.
Your words, shaped for each surface
The structural guidance tells you where to post and what angle to take. The words are yours. Trestle tells you where they will land.
Weekly research, not a one-off
The same brief, every week. Consistent proof of work you can rely on, not a one-time report.
The curator reads every word
Nothing goes out until the curator has seen it and you have had a chance to respond.
WHAT IT COSTS
£25per month
£25 a month once the weekly brief is live. Founding makers hear the price before anyone is charged.
- A research brief every week: what people in your craft are searching for right now and where they are asking about it
- Structural guidance on where to post and what tone to use, so your own words land
- Your profile in one place: photos, market schedule, and shop links, ready when discovery opens
We read every application and reply personally.
No commission. No rev-share. No hidden fees.
LESS NOISE, MORE CRAFT
A platform that does not ask more from you.
Trestle is not a marketplace. It is not a content tool. It is a research service, delivered week after week, that tells you where your buyers are paying attention so your own words can find them.
The curator at Trestle reads every application and every brief before it goes out. That is the point of the £25. Not automation. Attention.
the curator at trestle
