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Amy Brill Discusses Personal Background and Interest in Design

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Amy Brill

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  • female
  • Caucasian
  • 1950 (Age: 74 years old)
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Amy Brill has been designing since she was a little girl. After college, Brill worked as an actor for some time. Besides working as a puppeteer and a circus clown, she also designed for Angelheart, a clothing company, and designed her own soft sculptures and puppets.

During this time, Brill met Walt Amey, also a performer, and the two married. She and Amey founded Amy Brill Handmade Sweaters and have been selling her designs to small specialty stores since then. Amey is in charge of the sales and marketing and Brill designs and produces the sweaters.

Today, Amy Brill Handmade Sweaters still operates out of Brill and Amey's home in Jacksonville, New York. The company remains small, relying on about eight independent contractors for production, occasional interns, and small knitting factories and yarn mills to create its products. A relatively new line, Amy Amey has been added and consists of clothing made out of gauze.

Amy Brill is a graduate of Cornell University.

I always made stuff, um and that's a fun thing like my parents..the best presents they ever gave me was boxes of crap that I could make stuff out of. Since I was little I made dolls, puppets, and my great Aunt was a she knits snoods in a snood factory and...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 25 Amy Brill Shares Advice For Students Who Want to Become Designers
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Video 2 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Personal Background and Interest in Design
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Video 4 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Decision to Produce Yarn in America
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Video 5 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Working With Suppliers
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Video 6 of 25 Amy Brill Shares Thoughts on Spinning Yarn
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Video 7 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Sweater Design Process
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Video 8 of 25 Amy Brill Shares Thoughts on Disposable Fashion
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Video 9 of 25 Amy Brill Describes Starting to Sell in Handiwork Gallery in Ithaca
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Video 10 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Locations At Which Product is Sold
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Video 11 of 25 Amy Brill Shares Thoughts on Sales Representatives
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Video 12 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Decision To Use Models
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Video 13 of 25 Amy Brill Shares Thoughts on Selling Wholesale and Having Minimum Purchase Amounts
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Video 14 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Seasonality of Business
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Video 15 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Decision To Sell To Small Specialty Stores
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Video 16 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Pricing and Sizing
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Video 17 of 25 Amy Brill Shares Thoughts on Target Market
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Video 18 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses New Sweater Product Offerings
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Video 19 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Product Offerings Using Gauze Material
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Video 20 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Finding Manufacturing Support As A Small Business
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Video 21 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Challenges Faced As A Small Designer
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Video 22 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Product Line Decisions
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Video 23 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Decision To Sell Wholesale and the Concept of Extra Stock
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Video 24 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Managing Knitting Labor
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Video 25 of 25 Amy Brill Discusses Personal Relationships With Labor
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