Makers Map

Illustration: what the numbers show

32 illustration businesses mapped across the area, of which 27 are unincorporated sole traders who appear in no company register.

32 mapped
27 sole traders
28 with a website
3 listed publicly
Basque women ilustrators with an image in Wikidata (2020). Wikidata query: https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23Wikidatan_dauden_emakume_ilustratzaileen_zerrenda%0A%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fjaio_herria%20%3Fjaio_herriaLabel%20%3Fcoor%
Illustration Stock photograph, not this business's own work. Ksarasola · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

How big they are

From the accounts filed at Companies House by the illustration companies in this area. Sole traders publish nothing, so they are counted above but contribute nothing here — which is itself the point: the majority of this craft is invisible to any measure built on filings.

Not enough total assets figures to publish a comparison without risking identifying individual businesses.

Not enough net assets figures to publish a comparison without risking identifying individual businesses.

Not enough employees figures to publish a comparison without risking identifying individual businesses.

Balance-sheet totals, because turnover is not in small-company filings. Employee counts are averages of people under contract and exclude freelancers, so for a craft that runs on freelance work they understate the real number of people making a living from it.

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