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)
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