Re: [lace] Fair price for (modern) lace

2004-12-16 Thread Jeanette Fischer
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

[lace] Fair price for modern lace

2004-12-16 Thread Janice Blair
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

[lace] Fair price for (modern) lace

2004-12-14 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
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