Greetings Gentle Spiders,
A big thank you to all who replied. You have given me food for thought about
my intro to bobbin lace.
I was not attempting to put a value on my work using yesterday's standards,
but rather to give a newcomer to BL some idea of the how expensive lace was in
the 1700s. B
"Extract from "The Tablet of Memory" London 1787. p66.
LACE - more valuable than gold - one ounce of
fine Flanders thread has been sold in London for
£1. Such an ounce made into Lace may be here
sold for £40, which is ten times the price of
standard gold, weight for weight."
I have no id
""I seem to remember from arachne several years ago the statement that at
one
stage lace was worth up to 8 times its weight in gold.
Could anyone help please with the source of this quote?""
I think the one you are referring to is the following, which was typed out
and given to me, stuck into
In 1970, when I was still quite a beginner at
lacemaking, I took a class at the Textile Museum
in Washington DC. I remember the teacher (the
wife of the then-Ambassador from -- where?
Gibraltar? the name escapes me) telling us that
we should reckon on making an inch per hour (a
square inch? a
On the other hand, the hankie I am making now is Binche lace, and is an old
pattern which has been reconstructed. I'm using very fine thread (140/2) and
began working the lace on the day after Christmas, 2005. I have just (today!)
turned the third corner. I estimate that I have worked a few h
UK minimum wage (assuming you are more than 21 years old) is 5.05 GBP
per hour - so your hankie would "cost" more like 250GBP
Brenda
On 5 Jun 2006, at 19:16, Viv Dewar wrote:
I timed myself this weekend at 1.75hrs for 4cm. So assuming a “minimum
wage” of about GBP4.50/hour and allowing about
Can someone who knows some of the history stuff advise?
Viv
In Worcestershire where were on our 4th consecutive day of summer!
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Greetings Gentle Spiders,
I am trying to put together some material for an Introduction to/
Demonstration of Bobbin Lace for our club.
I seem to remember from arachne several years ago the statement that at one
stage lace was worth up to 8 times its weight in gold.
Could anyone help please with t
