[lace] Lace book prices
Liz there might not be a reason for being suspicious about the price being bid up (or there might). One of the items I sold was the travel pillow that I'd made. It went for what I consider to be a ridiculously high price and I think it might have been popular because I'd included a small box for tools and threads and a removable pin cushion in it. A couple that have sold since haven't got anywhere near what I got for mine. Someone contacted me when it had got quite high and said she lived within 25 miles. She wanted to bid, but had a limit and asked if she could collect it personally if she won so she could used what would have been the amount for postage in her bid. I agreed. About an hour before the end she made her bid, but someone else had already put in a higher bid and she didn't get it. I am the type of bidder who isn't liked - I snipe. Obviously I want to get the item as cheaply as possible, so I try not to give anyone else an opportunity to outbid me. Even then I have a maximum and someone else might already have already put a bid in higher than I'm prepared to pay. Jean in Poole, Dorset, 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Lace book prices
I'd like to think that all the bidders on ebay are nice people but unfortuantely I think that some may not be. We have been hit by single high bids on other things as well - I collect Australian WWI sweetheart brooches and have found that when I need to put in a max bid because I won't be able to check neear the end of the bidding (normally because I'm at work) I see a single high bid that takes me up to my maximum. I will just keep looking and bidding and trying to win. Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ --- On Sun, 18/9/11, Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk wrote: From: Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk Subject: [lace] Lace book prices To: Lace lace@arachne.com Date: Sunday, 18 September, 2011, 8:14 Liz there might not be a reason for being suspicious about the price being bid up (or there might). One of the items I sold was the travel pillow that I'd made. It went for what I consider to be a ridiculously high price and I think it might have been popular because I'd included a small box for tools and threads and a removable pin cushion in it. A couple that have sold since haven't got anywhere near what I got for mine. snipped - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Lace book prices
To Liz and Jean - Sadly, another thing going on with bidders on eBay is that there are people out there who are inexperienced bidders, and jump right into the bidding. One or two people will increase their bid by a dollar or so at a time, and drive the bid up in the early days of the auction. When I see this happen with something I have my eye on, I know I'll have to be there at the ending bell. If this isn't practical, I just stop watching it. It does make me nuts to see something go way beyond it's reasonable value by two inexperienced bidders in a war with each other. A couple of years ago, someone paid over $150 for the original Skovgaard book, and after that there were lots of postings of similar books with inflated buy it now prices. They didn't sell, of course, and then it was a very long time before the book was available on ebay again. More experienced bidders decide what they are willing to pay and then stick to it. They know the value of the item and weigh that against their desire to own it. But they don't bid until the end of the auction. If their Max is hit before then, they don't have that feeling that their item is being lost and get sucked into a bidding war that drives the price up. Clay - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Re: Library Loan Wool for Pillows
As I stated before, it is just plain tragic, as dozens or hundreds of others don't get to use the books. Evidently this woman Liz is talking about, saved herself loads of time ferreting out books online/from booksellers, and got them for something close to original asking price. Once the demand was made for another person wanting to borrow same, she projected her own agenda onto the other, fearing someone else would keep it so tried to beat them to the punch. It is so sad. I too, have returned books twice and asked them to scan and they said they were busy...then got a note later than my book wasn't returned. I got so I took my young child in with me as my witness, and asked them to scan in front of me and never used the drop box. I have not borrowed lace books, as they are generally nearly impossible to find in the US (in part because of this), and the few in our state are kept at the hosting library, and you have to go there and peruse it on site because of this kind of abuse. When a Shetland Lace Knitting book was stolen from my car, I decided it was jeopardizing the technique (was a loan from Canada) and I never borrowed OOP books again. Lacemaking loses as a whole, as people cannot readily source and give up. I think some need to try it first before investing a lot in books, pillows and bobbins, and may not know of Lace groups that also loan. I wonder if loaning guilds have the same problem...hopefully not, and it is a smaller group, perhaps to hold everyone more accountable. One comment about the wool blend blanket, is I think that synthetics tend to dull pins (even more than ethafoam, etc.) Years of cutting, pinning, serging things that have synthetics in the textile (compared to natural fibers), they greatly shorten their life. Perhaps moot for some, but long term is worth considering when putting work into something and $20 boxes of pins, and repetitive stress kinds of issues. It would be worth it to me to go and buy pure wool and felt it in the washer, imho. Best, Susan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Book on demand
Coincidentally as we are discussing books on demand there's a 4 page article in the current 'Computeractive' issue 354, 15th to 28th September 2011. It explains very clearly how to do it using 'Lulu', but they do give links to 4 other on demand publishers. They also give examples of cost (although it isn't clear if the example is text only) from Lulu - £6.00 for a single copy of a 200 page paperback, £14.40 hardback or £15.60 hardback with dustjacket. A 12-page newspaper from 'Newpaper Club' would be £14.00 for a single copy or £169 for 100 copies (£1.69 each). With 'Lulu' (and probably others as well) a book can be revised and a 2nd edition published, and there's a choice of binding - perfect bound, saddle stitched, coil bound, dust jacketed, case wrapped, mass market paperback or trade paperback. Worth buying 'Computeractive' for this article if you think you might want to publish even one copy of something for yourself. Jean in Poole, Dorset, 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. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] lace population in the UK
I was wondering this afternoon, having looked back at some old magazines, just how many registered and non registered lacemakers there are in the UK now? I found an article in an old 'lace' from the early 80s (don't know which edition as it was on a photocopy that I'd stuffed into a folder) that said that at that time the Lace Guild was the second largest guild in the UK just behind the sugarcraft guild. How big is the lace guild / lacemaker's circle or lace society these days? Are they representative of the UK lacemaking populations? I'm not a member of any of these now - partly fed up with being a member of things (apart from the fabulous ISIS) but also if I can't join on line I forget to do it. Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] re Casper Netscher's Lacemaker
I did not mean to insult the integrity of the little lacemaker. I just want to note that as illustrious as the source of this interpretation is, there are still other ways to use the same information. A devoted housewife can also be (and, it was probably also true 350-400 years ago) someone who was privately seductive and enjoyed her married life. I see this when I look at the picture. It makes me happy. Clay On 9/17/2011 6:03 PM, Jean Eke wrote: In the booklet, 'Highlights, The Wallace Collection' published by The Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 2003 the painting is interpreted thus: Dutch paintings of the 17th century often had a moral. In this small picture, the little lacemaker serves as an example of good behaviour for a Dutch housewife of the time. The mussels lying at her feet are a symbol of her virtue as both stay in their shell. Her discarded shoes suggest she cannot leave the house without them and so avoids temptation. The broom beside her emphasises her spotless house. On her richly embroidered cap is an emblem of doves and clasped hands that tell us she is a loving wife. Lace-making was also a sign of the virtuous housewife, since it was a long, laborious process allowing the maker little freedom from domesticity. ! I hope the Wallace Collection will forgive such a long quote but I felt I must defend the little lacemaker and advertise a wonderful Art Gallery in London. They also have Frans Hals, The Laughing Cavalier, with his wonderful needlepoint cuffs and collar. Jean Eke in Sussex , England, on a chilly , wet windy late evening. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace] Lace book prices
We have been bidding on different items and what I am noticing is that a few hours before the end of the bidding, if no one has bid on the item apart from me, someone comes in and make one bid higher than I've initially offered but not too high to push me out of the bidding. They then don't bid again. I've looked at the bidder's history and on one item I bought this person has bid 15 times and never won anything, yet the book I bought went for £3 but until an hour before the bidding ended it was at 99p. Am I missing something here? I am confused about what you think is going on that makes you suspicious. Do you think the other bidder is simply running up the price with no intention of buying? Or that she only bids on things you are bidding on? I think that what you are describing is an auction. Two people have decided what the maximum is that they want to pay, and the item goes to the person who wants to pay the most. Is there some obligation on the part of bidders to bid early in the process or for sellers to sell at the price that the item has sat at for the longest time at the auction? The other bidder doesn't know your maximum bid. She only knows her maximum bid. She could put in her maximum bid at the end of the auction when there is no time for either of you to increase it, and have you outbid her, due to the automatic bidding process. That is apparently what happened. A lot of auctions are decided in the last hour of bidding. The great thing about the automatic bidding process is that you can decide exactly how much you are willing to pay for an item in advance, and then you don't need to think about it any more. Devon - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace] Re: Lulu and others
But keep an eye on your bank/card account for unauthorized charges. I had several that were done monthly, no idea how it could have happened nor what they were for, though the powers that be set it right and rectified the situation when Lulu didn't respond to queries. Best, Susan Reishus - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
[lace-chat] The Tower of London Yeoman - A bit of English History with a twist
Hope it doesn't offend anyone. I think it's very funny. Dread to think which nation he'd insult on the next part of the tour. http://millmore.posterous.com/yeoman-warden-at-tower-of-london Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
Re: [lace-chat] The Tower of London Yeoman - A bit of English History with a twist
Brilliant! Thanks for a good laugh. Agnes Boddington - Elloughton UK Hope it doesn't offend anyone. I think it's very funny. Dread to think which nation he'd insult on the next part of the tour. http://millmore.posterous.com/yeoman-warden-at-tower-of-london Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
