Your work is not free inventory
Report stolen quilt patterns: Quiltler's 24-hour hold, DMCA, Copyright Claims Board, FBI IC3, and why listing here is harder to pirate.
- Your work is not free inventory — A scrape shop collecting payment for a pattern you drafted is the same theft as billing a homeowner for wiring you already ran.
- Complaining is not a plan — The operators who scrape Etsy and personal sites read takedown notices, not Facebook threads.
- Quiltler holds a reported listing for 24 hours — Open the pattern, report it as stolen, and it leaves the market while a person reviews the claim.
- A purchased Quiltler design cannot be relisted — The sale is marked on the design. Optional Quiltler-only listings never produce a PDF to pirate.
Why list on Quiltler
Stripe identity checks before a seller can take a penny, purchased designs cannot be relisted, Quiltler-only patterns never exist as a PDF, marketplace images are shielded from ordinary save, and a stolen-pattern report holds the listing for 24 hours and emails the operator the same moment.
How to report a stolen pattern on Quiltler
Open the listing, press Report this pattern as stolen, add the address where the copy is being sold and the addresses where you sell the original, and choose this pattern or the whole seller. The report is stored and emailed. You are notified it is under review. A first report holds the listing 24 hours. A listing already reviewed as legitimate is not held again; you can email an appeal.
Write it down before you do anything else
Screenshot the stolen listing, keep your original files and dated photos, and note the seller, host and registrar. Scrapers move. Evidence you do not capture today is gone when a copyright office asks for it.
Report it where it is being sold
Use the intellectual-property forms on Etsy, Google, Facebook, Instagram and Cloudflare. A comment on the listing is not a report.
Report it to the government
U.S. Copyright Office DMCA (section 512), copyright registration, the Copyright Claims Board, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, and the FTC ReportFraud assistant. UK and EU copyright pages are linked for designers outside the United States. This is not legal advice.