Black Rainbow Project needs your help!

My 2p. Whilst completely understanding and appreciately both your craft and passion for your work, it seems that the issue has always been keeping up with supply and your time it takes to craft your items.
As a shop owner I deal with many equally passionate and talented people that whilst appreciating what they do, their business acumen and ability to run and fulfil orders ultimately leads to them to get swamped with orders and promises they can’t keep up with. Like you say in you go fund me blurb.
Many we have wanted to work with and been patient with simply haven’t worked out the capacity they can work to and have not been able to say no on taking orders- thinking more orders = more money.
All off this sounds like you already know.

I would say that a part of your hopefully successful business going forward should think of either outsourcing smaller items that can be easily reproduced like T shirts, hats, small items like pouches etc, designed by but not made by you. Going forward when you have perfected a bag design look to get it made up by someone other than you personally so you can concentrate on improvements/new products you can make and the likewise pass on to a trusted team/other makers to fulfil your orders.

Not to say that means moving production to China or somewhere you can’t visit or keep an eye on for quality control. A good example might be hiut denim utilising people in cardigan bay who have made jeans for years and have now had a second wind. Likewise somewhere like Blackhorse lane atilers.

I know you might feel you need to touch/make everything with your own hands but Imo to make a run of it you’ll need to pass part of it over to scale up but with your own blessing and eye over it.

I wish you good luck and I’ll be donating.