Your math was correct, Karisse, but I'm afraid your assumptions were not so accurate! While many women make $30K a year, those who are artists, weavers, spinners, quiltmakers - in other words, people who are creating nice things - more often than not do not get close to that amount of money. Only if (by some fluke) they become well known and their creations are in high demand can they get what their time should be worth.
Still... at even HALF of what you suggested, those shawls are worth a fortune!! Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karisse Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 1:46 PM Subject: [lace] Auction pictures > OK, If it took 10 women, 10 years to make one of those shawls then if you > put that into today and todays pay checks that would mean each shawl cost > how much to make? Let's see I will give it a guess that women make about > $30,000.00 a year, more or less, times ten is $300,000.00. Right? That times > 10 years is $3,000,000.00, right? I can bet that is not what those shawls > and those skirts are going to sell for. I am going to be interested in see > who buys them and for how much. I hope they know how valuable those huge > pieces of lace really are. > > Karisse > Central TX > > > I don't know about the rest of you but those pictures of the lace put up > > for > > auction makes me drool. I wonder how long it took to make those wonderful > > Chantilly skirts and how many women worked on them > > i was told it took ten lacemakers ten years to make one of those huge 19th > century chantilly shawls ... and each worked 10cmx20cm lengths that were > then put together with an invisible stitch by another specialised worker . > i saw all this very well explained in the Chantilly museum . > ps. i love Chantilly lace !!!!! and Chantilly cream but that's another > story ... > > dominique from Paris . > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
