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Crown Crafts, Inc. Signs Licensing Agreement With Kelly B. Rightsell Designs, Inc.

New Luxury Products From Crown Crafts Infant Products and Hamco to Launch at ABC Show

Crown Crafts, Inc. (OTC BB: CRWS) (the "Company") today announced it has formalized a licensing agreement with Kelly B. Rightsell Designs, Inc. This new arrangement will expand the Company's presence in the luxury distribution channels for infant and juvenile bedding and accessories.

Under the agreement with Kelly B. Rightsell Designs, the Company will produce, market and sell infant and juvenile home furnishings and accessories under the "Kelly Rightsell" brand. Crown Crafts Infant Products will develop infant and juvenile bedding, blankets, and room decor for the brand, while Hamco will develop bibs and bath products. The Company will focus its marketing and sales efforts on the luxury market with infant crib sets with suggested retail prices starting at $450.00.

New product introductions will be made at the ABC Show in Las Vegas in September 2005.

"We are especially excited about this new relationship because it opens the door for Kelly to create a wide array of new products," said Brian Rightsell, President of Kelly B. Rightsell Designs, Inc. "By utilizing Crown Crafts broad manufacturing resources, we will be able to greatly expand and improve our current offering of infant bedding, Moses baskets, bibs, burp clothes, and blankets as well as enter new product categories including juvenile (twin) bedding, window treatments, mobiles, night lights, switch plates, diaper bags, bath items and more."

"This new license arrangement gives us a branded presence in the luxury market," commented Nanci Freeman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Crown Crafts Infant Products. "With the addition of these beautiful classic designs from Kelly Rightsell, we will be able to expand our product offering to the juvenile specialty market."

About Crown Crafts, Inc.

Crown Crafts, Inc. designs, markets and distributes infant and juvenile consumer products, including bedding, blankets, bibs, bath and accessories and luxury hand-woven home decor. Its subsidiaries include Hamco, Inc. in Louisiana, Crown Crafts Infant Products, Inc. in California and Churchill Weavers, Inc. in Kentucky. Crown Crafts is America's largest producer of infant bedding, bibs and bath items. The Company's products include licensed and branded collections as well as exclusive private label programs for certain of its customers.

About Kelly B. Rightsell Designs, Inc.

Kelly B. Rightsell Designs, Inc. produces and markets a line of child decor products and specializes in delighting children and adults with prints, gifts, bedding, and decor inspired by the original artwork of Kelly B. Rightsell, a Greensboro artist, business owner and mother. Kelly's designs are inspired not only by her own children, but by years as a fine artist in the South, her degree in printmaking, summer art studies in Europe, and her work as an elementary school art teacher. Kelly's designs are distinctive in their fine attention to detail, imaginative designs, vibrant colors and childlike sense of humor.

The Greensboro-based company, formed in 1999, has licensing agreements with Seabrook Wallcoverings, Oakhurst Textiles, Peking Handicraft, The Manchester Furniture Group, and Mar-Shell Inc, translating her designs into a variety of products that can fill entire rooms, including furniture, wallpaper, rugs, pillows, fabric, drapery hardware, and more. Products designed by Kelly are available at retailers across the country and have been featured in Bloomingdale's, Veranda Magazine, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," "The Reba (McEntire) Show," and HGTV.

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