Does embroidery over fur feel intimidating instead of cuddly?
Have your previous projects turned into a hairy mess?
In this mini book I cover some of the steps that I use when embroidering or sewing over fur. This book focuses on Shannon “Luxe Rose Cuddle” style fabric, which is probably more complicated than regular fur. All the techniques are compatible with short furs like rabbit fur or other luxe cuddles.
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That’s right! I’ve been reworking some art and layouts (new logo too!) And I want to spruce this place up.
I’ve wanted to for a while, it’s something that’s been on the backburner while I deal with actual orders, new content for Ko-Fi etc, but honestly I’m thinking more about it now that the whole Twitter thing has been happening. Twitter was the one account out of all the different social media platforms where growth felt natural and kept coming. It petered out a little in the summer when my grandmother passed and I took a hiatus and stopped posting. Everything ground to a halt and I’ve only just started getting back to where I was, only for it all to implode.
I’m still there and still using the platform for as long as it is usable, but those aims of getting this place looking better have slid up the list in terms of priority.
This is hard for me to write, as from the beginning I hoped it could be resolved quickly, but it has been a week now and I don’t see an end to the situation unless I go ahead with long, drawn-out legal action.
I have been made aware that they have accused me of slander, so I will be frank: All of the information in this post, in all posts I have made and may make in future, is to the best of my knowledge, completely factual. Anything I might say about my personal feelings on their practices and behavior is MY personal opinion, but my claims of their misuse of my IP is to my knowledge true and backed up with numerous amount of evidence. I have been made aware of personal views held by Lindsey Davis and her wife and we will never share those views; we will never be friends. I will struggle to forgive such major breaches of my business’s terms of use, but I wish her good health all the same.
I do not normally react with Cease and Desists when I see artists forgetting/not crediting my work. We are all human, I have a couple of times forgotten to mention where I got assets for projects but have always gone back to edit the post when I remembered. I normally start off with a small message asking artists if they’d mind crediting me, however in this case the artist has breached all three terms of use, and has not adequately responded to my requests.
Last Saturday I came across a page called Wonderland Arts by Lin Davis. I noticed that the artist was using embroidery files purchased from me and that they were not crediting my name in their posts. My terms of use in all my digital files are that I would like to be tagged/credited in posts showing works that have used my files and patterns. I wasn’t particularly upset until I noticed that my embroidery files had been used/traced on mass-produced factory plush. This is also against my terms of use. At first I thought they had sent the files to the factory. Wonderland Arts denied sharing the actual files and I believe them, but when shown side by side the design is clearly traced or copied, and I have a receipt for their purchase of this eye pack, so this is not a coincidence and is still being taken seriously.
My terms of use have always been in the item’s listing description and within the document you download on purchase. My contact details are in the manuals too. I changed my business handle late 2020, but my FeatherStitched email address and social media accounts are still active and able to receive messages, if Lindsey had wanted to contact me for permission to use my IP for her factory design.
The third thing I found while checking the page for any further instances of factory use was a photo of my Anthro pattern’s pieces shared to their facebook. The post did not credit me as the maker, and the text of the post by omission misled followers to believe that the pattern was created from scratch. This is also a violation of my terms as I do not allow reproduction or redistribution of any of the content within my pattern PDFs.
Wonderland Arts has denied using my patterns for commissions or shop orders. THIS IS NOT THE ISSUE. My patterns are fine to use for commissions, as long as I am credited within public posts, but again, I do not allow sharing of my pattern content. This post is sharing that pattern and not crediting me. Those are my issues that I wish resolved. I have asked multiple times for this post to be deleted and so far it is still active as I write this.
On Saturday I received a facebook message from Lindsey’s wife, however she did not admit who she was in the message, throwing up a fourth red flag. I did not know who she was and I felt uncomfortable, I was suspicious and responded in such a manner. I blocked her and Lindsey on social media and resolved to send them an email instead, as I felt like emails were a more secure option. I sent a Cease and Desist, asking them to remove the photos of my pattern pieces, credit my files, stop using them in a commercial manner and apologize to me for the record-breaking violations of my terms of use. (seriously, nobody has ever broken all three rules before!!)
The only email I have since received from Wonderland Arts was disappointing at best. Their claims have been contradictory to public comments to their followers, and they’ve denied using my IP for the commercial plush (see the photos above for side-by-side comparisons)
I did tell them in my email that I would be contacting the other artists whose files had been used commercially, and if they couldn’t credit/delete the posts I had asked for that I would be writing an artists’ beware post, so that they can’t continue doing it to other artists (there are two others whose files have been used) I have not received any further contact, the posts have not been deleted, so here’s my artists’ beware:
Wonderland Arts by Lindsey Davis (and also of Fruit Buddies) has purchased my files, but then has not followed the terms of service present in the shop listing nor in the manuals that come with the items.
When contacted, they denied using my files for commercial plush, but said they would change the design. The listings with the copied/traced/stolen eyes are still active in their shop. They refused to take down the posts with my pattern pieces in, and have denied using those too. They have not added any credit to any of the many posts using my eye files. They offered to add credit if I sent them links. There are hundreds of posts. I went to their photos tab and took a screenshot any time one photo included my eyes anywhere. There were many collages featuring multiple plush with my eyes, but I only took one per photo. There were 200+ instances where I should have been credited.
I went through the “photos” tab on their facebook page, and took a screenshot every time I saw my files. This was the result.
Had I been credited in the first place, as they were being posted over the last four years, I would have been ecstatic each time to see my eyes used in such cute colourful ways. I would have been an absolute cheerleader for this page. If I’d been aware of them due to credit I would have sent potential fursona clients their way. As it stands, my experience with them has been forever tarred. I can’t imagine feeling comfortable with them using my work ever again.
I urge any artist who provides digital patterns, embroidery files or other plush-making assets to assess their terms of use and, if they are not comfortable with factory use / artists allowing the files’ creators to be misinterpreted, to block Lin Davis of Wonderland Arts and Fruit Buddies. Anyone who needs her email addresses to block on etsy / shopify etc can contact me for assistance.
