Arts and Crafts Guide to Prototypes

Another fantastic article over at the Fashion Incubator - this week the topic du jour is What's a prototype and when do you need one?  Basically an arts and crafts prototype is an orginal model of your item. 

Used before you go into production mode with the arts or crafts item, the purpose is to make sure the item works/costs/looks as you want it to before you advertise it for sale to your customers.