IF he calls, you should let him know what Mrs Selb tells about making
traditional hats: it took about 350 + x hours for a traditional cap. May
be this is a bigger piece of lace - there is still the question of
getting the material, learning how to do it, coming to a skill that
allows you to sell your work (I know what I am talking about) and
finding peaople willing to pay for all this. If I remember correctly,
Mrs Selb wrote the material for a cap was about 500 swiss francs in the
1980th - I think she talks about gold wire and not brass.
Avital, I had some material, part of it left thread from a factory that
made historical uniforms, but unfortunately we lost nearly all of it in
the high water last august (1 m in the warehouse, and heavy things, like
metal thread and wire was completely on the ground).
Metal thread like flat wire ("Plätt" - platt means flach) and "Gespinst"
(round thread, made of a cotton core, twined around with a very fine
flat metal wire - I don't know the english term for it) is usually used
for church lace and what is called "Klosterarbeiten" - difficult to
explain, see the google-fotos:
http://www.google.de/images?q=Klosterarbeiten&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=OplaTerxII3ysgb_i6WVBg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CEMQsAQwAA
So there is still a small market for this material, but a really small
one.
The other possibilities are Austria and Swizerland (around St.Gallen, I
believe)
Gabriele
-----Original Message-----
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:27:05 +0100
Subject: Re: [lace] Spanier arbeit
From: Avital <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
P.S. I haven't heard from this guy since I told him that he would have
to open a sweatshop and buy the materials from Austria or Germany....
Avital
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