The Thread
Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Marks shares news and views from around the home textiles marketplace.
Swimming with the pishers? You probably should be
The good news from HTT’s annual Top 50 Retailing Giants report is that 46 retailers […]
July 13, 2022
What are you going to do now that the bubble has burst?
Recently, we’ve been hearing that some buyers are completely done with orders for 2022.
June 2, 2022
Head-spinning times | Jennifer Marks
The word “unprecedented” has gotten quite a workout over the past four years, and justifiably […]
May 6, 2022
NY Market Bounces (Half-Way) Back
For the first time in a very long time, big pencil retailers turned out in […]
April 1, 2022
Welcome to New York (or not…)
For many in the industry, this will be their first experience of New York market […]
March 21, 2022
Marks blog: Top Dogs and Ankle Biters
The small dogs are pushing their snouts into the bowl for a bigger serving of […]
December 27, 2021
Marks blog: The Delta Market
I’m finding there will be more open doors in New York this week than I […]
October 4, 2021
Jennifer Marks blog: The Big Mo
Despite all the challenges, home furnishings sales keep on churning.
September 27, 2021
Blog: Here we go again – virtually
Everyone is pretty well seasoned in the art of screen-to-screen interaction at this point and […]
March 12, 2021
BLOG: Waiting for the New Normal
The year isn’t getting started in quite the way we might have hoped for a […]
January 12, 2021