Re: [lace] Fair price for (modern) lace
A few months ago our Guild demonstrated lace at a large tourist shopping centre in Cape Town. A young Hawaiian girl working as an au pair for an American couple visited the demonstration and said she was getting married in March 2005 and would love a lace garter for her wedding. One of the lacemakers - not me I am not quite that daft - offered to make her a garter and the two of them exchanged addresses etc. Elsabe then proceeded to make this beautiful Bucks garter but also started thinking along the lines of getting some monetary return for the Guild. So I bravely offered to do the negotiating. I wrote a long letter to this girl explaining the effort that went into making the lace etc etc and that Elsabe has now donated the garter to the Guild and the cost would be 50 USD. I got a very panicky e-mail back to ask if she must now pay the 50USD and the Guild gets to keep the garter!!! Talking about crossed wires. I then wrote back to make myself more clear and then started to panic that she might throw the garter away at the wedding and fortunately she understood that explanation! The garter has gone off and we are waiting with bated breath to see if the money appears! Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Fair price for modern lace
I have recently experienced selling some of my lace at a local craft fair. They were very simple lace outlines of a rocking horse, dala horse and a reindeer, all of which morphed out of the rocking horse design. You can see the first two at the bottom of my web shots page but the dala horse has changed design to include a saddle since I made the one posted there. http://community.webshots.com/album/149126673AmIpMo These pictures were sold in nice wooden frames from the dollar store for $12 pre-craft fair and $15 at the craft fair. I have sold at least ten of these pictures, I only have 3 in stock now and I think that was because of my color choice of background matts. I realised that white lace disappears on a pale green background under the lights of the craft fair so I will be changing the backgrounds on the remaining ones. I know that to us $12 is not much for something that probably took me 3 hours to make but it has put over $100 into our convention fund. We are considering making notecards of the reindeer to sell to lacemakers. I did use it for my christmas card this year so I am getting a lot of mileage out of the simple design. I don't think any of the lace bookmarks we had were sold and only a few of the Ufo glass candle holders with lace inside sold, but most people at the craft fair were looking for christmas decorations for their homes. Maybe next year we will make more christmassy things. Janice Janice Blair Crystal Lake, 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois, USA - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Fair price for (modern) lace
On Dec 14, 2004, at 14:43, Lorelei Halley wrote: What makes me apoplectic with rage is when somebody asks me what price I would want for a piece of lace I'd made, and I give them the hours times $10 price. I have determined, long ago, that I cannot afford to sell the lace I make. Even now, when I'm a bit more competent and faster, I still can only afford to give it away - to those who are likely to appreciate it. Which, mostly, means other lacemakers, though not always. I agree with Betty Ann - bartering is always an option. I e-sent a message yesterday to several of my friends in Poland looking for a couple of books. And offered lace in exchange. As chance would have it, it was the one *male* on my list, who located both books, and started the procedure of getting them to me (apparently, the Polish internet-antiquarian shops never heard of making a difference between a billing and a shipping address g). But he has a wife and a grown-up daughter, so, who knows, he might like to have something in return for his labours. They get offended and tell me they wouldn't even pay that for antique lace (as if everybody agrees that antique lace is intrinsically more valuable than modern). Well... Have you priced 200-400yrs worth of *storage* recently? g --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
