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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:35:41PM +0100, Guido Gehlhaar wrote:
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> > I've sold them for $50 for a simple warped in,
> > counted turn pattern up to $150 for a double
> > "Rams Horn".
>
> Uh my God, what was I doing in the past? I sold a double Rams Horn about
> six weeks ago at a length of 1,50 meters (something about 1.7 yards?)
> for 95 German Marks (which is about 43$) in 10/4 mercerized cotton...
> Are you really able to offer at such prices? Here in Germany
> (re-enactment markets) people look at some belts (example: 28 tablets,
> nearly 2 meters long) for about 30$ just shaking heads... (too expensive
> is the most sentence I hear on such markets)
Yeesh! That is about what my wife would ask for such a belt (in cotton).
Someone saying "priced too high" is being a yutz. Someone saying "more
than I can afford" is just pleading poverty.
Linen or silk will run more (obviously). For cotton, my wife starts
with (number of cards) X .50 X (length in yards). For other fibers, the
".50" becomes a larger number. This price may be adjusted upward to
account for complexity of the work.
We've moved maybe a couple hundred yards of stuff at these prices over
time. Much of that was custom work.
yours,
Michael
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