Molly Carroll, Paivi Roberts, Maria Niforos and Peggy Zalamea are dealers in vintage and antique textiles who sell lace at the IOLI and at the Pier Shows that show antiques. But that is entirely different than purveying lace as art. I suspect the tag on the booths for the shows you mention is significantly higher than what they are paying to be in the antique sales in the same venues. These are the websites of the three shows you mentioned. _http://www.haughton.com/design/dealers.htm_ (http://www.haughton.com/design/dealers.htm) _http://www.aafnyc.com/art_fair_participant_requirements.asp_ (http://www.aafnyc.com/art_fair_participant_requirements.asp) _http://www.sanfordsmith.com/modex.htm_ (http://www.sanfordsmith.com/modex.htm) These appear to be extremely high class affairs. The exhibitors are galleries, not individual artists at these shows. But, I think the biggest critical problem is that there really are not many pieces of lace art that people are prepared to sell. I can't imagine that you, Aurelia, are willing to put a price on several fans and place them out on a table for people to buy. The purpose of these shows is to sell art, not just to show it. Excluding Lenka, who seems to have worked out the selling aspect to her satisfaction, could we assemble even 15 pieces of actual lace art to put in a booth and be prepared to sell?
Interestingly, the following business is one that sells textiles at the first mentioned show. _http://www.textilearts.com/_ (http://www.textilearts.com/) but they seem more taken with exotic textiles. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
