We have in the past discussed whether lacemaking is art or craft. For my two penn'th I'll suggest that it is craft when you are working a pattern designed by someone else, or an adaptation of another pattern, but art when you have designed and made the lace from scratch as a one-off piece. Much the same as painting by numbers on a pre-printed drawing is craft whilst sketching your own picture and then painting it is art.
I think that the reason very few lacemakers sell their work is because of the time it takes to make it. A competent amateur artist could paint and frame a picture that would sell for 40-50 pounds in an afternoon. How much lace could you make in that time and would it sell for that sort of money? Brenda On 27 Sep 2010, at 15:03, Clive & Betty Rice wrote: > You should have related that lacemaking is a "fine art" or "fiber art." I, > and many lacemakers in the USA, consider "crafts" differently than > lacemaking. Cardmaking, wooden lawn orrnaments, box making, and the sort of > things that can be sold at craft fairs as "crafts." Do lacemakers go to > craft fairs and/or set up tables at festivals to sell the fine lace that we > have made? > > Can we make an effort to change "lacemaking" to a fine art instead of a > "craft?" Brenda in Allhallows www.brendapaternoster.me.uk - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
