Submitting your Original Projects

Thanks for your interest regarding The Winfield Collection’s policy on purchasing designs and patterns from individual woodcrafters.

Although we design most of our own projects, we recognize that there are many creative woodcrafters outside our company that frequently design some very good projects that our customers might enjoy making. The Winfield Collection is interested in purchasing such original projects.

The amount of payment we offer depends upon many variables—the originality and salability of the concept, the amount of work it will take for our staff to create a marketable pattern from the concept and the amount of catalog space it will take to properly promote such a project.

We will consider all forms of submittals—anything from a paragraph of text or a simple sketch expressing an idea to a totally finished project with a professionally drawn pattern.

If you wish to make a Submittal, please read and understand our Acknowledgement Letter, print a copy, sign it (make a photocopy for your records) then send it to us with all of the following information that is available about your original project:

1. Photographs of the completed project
2. Additional photos showing construction details
3. General instructions that may help clarify the concept
4. Plans for the project (professionally drawn or otherwise)
5. Full-size patterns of pertinent project pieces
6. Date that you conceived the project idea
7. Date that you made the project in your photographs

All materials should be mailed, postage paid, to The Winfield Collection, Attention: Project Submittals Dept., 3150 Owen Road, Fenton, Michigan 48430

Upon a favorable review of your Submittal, we will contact you with further details. If you do not hear from us within 60 days, you should assume your project did not receive a favorable review. Unfortunately, because of the volume of Submittals we receive, we cannot guarantee acknowledgement of individual Submittals nor return of materials sent.

Thank you for thinking of The Winfield Collection. We look forward to reviewing the original woodcraft project presented in your Submittal.

Acknowledgement Letter

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The Winfield Collection