On Dec 16, 2004, at 21:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote:
"What do you think it would cost?" I asked. She said, "several hundred dollars.
The conservator would have to look at the piece, decide what needed to be done,
write it up and have the client sign off on it."
"What do you think the hourly rate would be," I asked.
"About $50 or $60 dollars and hour" was the reply.
[...]
This opens the question in my mind as
to how many textile conservators actually know how to make lace. I am sure that
they are good at mending, but I wonder if they can for instance fill in
missing areas. So the question is also, for several hundred dollars, what does
the job actually look like at the end.
I think, in the future, if anyone asks me about repairing lace, I'll just recommend that they get Elizabeth Kurella's "Anybody Can Mend Lace and Linens". At a mere $20 (plus shipping), one can get an idea from it whether:
1) the piece is worth trying to repair
2) what the repair would involve (piecing threads or making a spearate insertion and then piecing that in)
3) learn how to tackle the job
4) in extensio of 3 - if it's too much work for you to do at home, think how much a professional will charge. Then go back to 1 :)
Too bad Evelynn (who posted the original question) is curently unsubscribed, but, for the rest:
http://www.elizabethkurella.com/bookbyelmkur.html
--- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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