I first heard about The Sak Store last month when I saw a feature on some pink crochet shoes that they were offering for sale as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. However, once I began to research them, I learned that this crochet-rich brand is a San Francisco based shop that’s been importing high-quality, hand-crafted, mostly-crochet goods since the late 1980s.
The Sak Brand
Mark Talucci and Todd Elliott were childhood friends who were tired of their corporate jobs when they went on a trip to Bali together in 1989. They saw handcrafted treasures there and realized that they could import those goods back to San Francisco and use their combined business skills to make a living. Five years later they were seeing huge success in retail stores. In 2005 they were named one of the fastest growing companies on the Forbes 500 list. In 2009 they celebrated their twentieth anniversary. They continue selling new crochet products today.
Sak’s Crochet Timeline
This visual shows the evolution of a crochet-rich history from this brand:
