[lace] Hand-made lace on ebay - no chance
A City and Guilds lacemaker is offering Goth hand-made lace gloves with an opening bid required of £250. Don't think she stands any chance of selling them, even though, as she says, they took 80 hours of work, are ridiculously expensive and totally exclusive. Very brave to base her price on hours spent in making them, but don't think that will persuade anyone to buy - they'll just see the price. We all know you can't make a living out of lacemaking unless you get a very special commission. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STUNNING-BLACK-HANDWORKED-BOBBIN-LACE-GOTH-GLOVES-/300500714223?pt=Women_s_Accessories_UKhash=item45f73d02ef or tinied: http://tinyurl.com/2wxerhf 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
Re: [lace] Hand-made lace on ebay - no chance
Maybe they'll buy them for Abby to wear on NCIS, the television show. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where it's cold, 28F -2C, but clear. Wind chill of 19F, -6.5C -Original Message- From: Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk Sent: Dec 6, 2010 3:55 AM To: Lace lace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Hand-made lace on ebay - no chance A City and Guilds lacemaker is offering Goth hand-made lace gloves with an opening bid required of £250. Don't think she stands any chance of selling them, even though, as she says, they took 80 hours of work, are ridiculously expensive and totally exclusive. Very brave to base her price on hours spent in making them, but don't think that will persuade anyone to buy - they'll just see the price. We all know you can't make a living out of lacemaking unless you get a very special commission. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STUNNING-BLACK-HANDWORKED-BOBBIN-LACE-GOTH-GLOVES-/300500714223?pt=Women_s_Accessories_UKhash=item45f73d02ef or tinied: http://tinyurl.com/2wxerhf 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 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Hand-made lace on ebay - no chance
You're right .. it would suit her fine ... :)) they're beautiful . dom in Paris . Le 06/12/10 13:55, lynrbai...@desupernet.net a écrit : Maybe they'll buy them for Abby to wear on NCIS, the television show. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where it's cold, 28F -2C, but clear. Wind chill of 19F, -6.5C -Original Message- From: Jean Nathanj...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk Sent: Dec 6, 2010 3:55 AM To: Lacelace@arachne.com Subject: [lace] Hand-made lace on ebay - no chance A City and Guilds lacemaker is offering Goth hand-made lace gloves with an opening bid required of £250. Don't think she stands any chance of selling them, even though, as she says, they took 80 hours of work, are ridiculously expensive and totally exclusive. Very brave to base her price on hours spent in making them, but don't think that will persuade anyone to buy - they'll just see the price. We all know you can't make a living out of lacemaking unless you get a very special commission. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STUNNING-BLACK-HANDWORKED-BOBBIN-LACE-GOTH-GLOVES-/300500714223?pt=Women_s_Accessories_UKhash=item45f73d02ef or tinied: http://tinyurl.com/2wxerhf 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 - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.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
Re: [lace] Hand-made lace on ebay - no chance
Jean Nathan wrote: A City and Guilds lacemaker is offering Goth hand-made lace gloves with an opening bid required of £250. When I looked at the pictures (one of finished glove, one work in progress and 3 of other things), I thought perhaps the £250 included a skull, gravestone and a very nice stone angel. Actually, I think the angel IS worth £250. Malvary in Ottawa where we have some snow (not as much as UK), but we can cope better. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Hand-made lace on ebay - no chance
The gloves (glovettes?) are beautifulI but hardly worth the price, and aren't particularly complex, I made something similar in tondèr a while back. I believe that particular angel is part of the statuary at highgate cemetery in London :-) On 7 Dec 2010, at 14:25, Malvary J Cole malva...@sympatico.ca wrote: Jean Nathan wrote: A City and Guilds lacemaker is offering Goth hand-made lace gloves with an opening bid required of £250. When I looked at the pictures (one of finished glove, one work in progress and 3 of other things), I thought perhaps the £250 included a skull, gravestone and a very nice stone angel. Actually, I think the angel IS worth £250. Malvary in Ottawa where we have some snow (not as much as UK), but we can cope better. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.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
Re: [lace] Hand-made lace on ebay - no chance
She says that they took at least 80 hours to make not including design time. She won't win any prizes for speed that's for sure ;o) Claire Kent,UK Where thankfully the snow is disappearing. Lora wrote The gloves (glovettes?) are beautifulI but hardly worth the price, and aren't particularly complex, I made something similar in tondèr a while back. I believe that particular angel is part of the statuary at highgate cemetery in London :-) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
Re: [lace] Hand-made lace on ebay - no chance
Hi All, I have just looked at the gloves, and love them!I'd certainly wear them - somewhere! - but as they are so expensive, maybe one of the gold, Indian hand embellishments could be used as a pattern, to design my own A project for the Christmas holiday perhaps, or maybe it would be quicker and cheaper to glance at the 'Power of Hands'website. But I also think that Abby from NCIS would look great in them - although I was not too impressed with the skeleton phalanges on which a glove was photographed, one of the photographs. Carol - in Suffolk UK 'Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day.' To: Lace lace@arachne.com Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:25 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Hand-made lace on ebay - no chance Jean Nathan wrote: A City and Guilds lacemaker is offering Goth hand-made lace gloves with an opening bid required of £250. When I looked at the pictures (one of finished glove, one work in progress and 3 of other things), I thought perhaps the £250 included a skull, gravestone and a very nice stone angel. Actually, I think the angel IS worth £250. Malvary in Ottawa where we have some snow (not as much as UK), but we can cope better. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.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
