Is there such a thing?
There was an letter/article covering pages 14 and 15 in 'Lace 101' January
2001 (the UK Lace Guild magazine) from Edith Cansdale describing her
undertaking to make lace for a year (6 to 8 hours a day) and then take a
stall at a large local craft fair (8,395 people attending).
She made various types of lace and a variety of different items. She decided
there were 4 advantages, 7 disadvantages, and came to 9 conclusions. She
worked out that, even at 50 pence per hour for labour (minimum wage is
around 10 times that), a handkerchief worked out at GBP26 and she had a
poster showing this. Even seeing this, people wanted to haggle the price
down. Her financial summary (simplified in GB pounds) was:
Total Takings 491.70
Less expenses 374.64
Total profit 117.06
Items made 203
Items sold 70
Items left 133
Total goods left valued at 1,085.80
Her last paragraph was "I had one piece of machine-made lace to show the
difference and I could have sold that over and over again".
Edith is a member of Poole Bobbin Lace Circle, and she's an excellent
lacemaker!
So, no I don't think there is what most non-lacemakers would regard as
relatively affordable hand-made lace.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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