Those people who read my article about visiting Burano may recall that I had a startling moment of epiphany when I had hunted down a genuinely recently made in Burano piece of lace, a doily which was priced at $350. The seller said plaintively to me, "It took my mother three weeks to make this. You are a lacemaker, you know how much work went into this." I knew she had spent 3 weeks making the piece, in fact I marveled at how she could do it in three weeks. There was a lot of work in it, but it wasn't very pretty and I could have bought the same piece on the antique market for about $10. One problem is that the piece of torchon you make now is competing with every piece of torchon ever made and old pieces are very cheap. One solution to this is to create lace art that reflects the zeitgeist of our time for which there is no huge body of competition and no preset conceptions of worth. Devon
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