Why can't WE sell our stuff for prices like this??!!?? I'll even use silk, instead of that cotton. And mine wouldn't have holes or missing beads.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Holy fucking fuck.
Over at Vintage Textile, they have an antique knitted bag up for sale. They have closeups and general measurements; between the two I am guesstimating the gauge at about twenty stitches per inch. They are selling it for ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. As in A THOUSAND DOLLARS PLUS ANOTHER HUNDRED.
Why can't WE sell our stuff for prices like this??!!?? I'll even use silk, instead of that cotton. And mine wouldn't have holes or missing beads.
Why can't WE sell our stuff for prices like this??!!?? I'll even use silk, instead of that cotton. And mine wouldn't have holes or missing beads.
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If she keeps the crown you just made her maybe one day Goober's grandkids can sell it for that much.
Pam
Because we are not knitting in 1833 with vintage cotton and beads we should have sold to the Indians when we stole their land, that's why. Because we have machine made needles, we didn't have to whittle them out of twigs. Besides vintage textiles are more valuable because they've survived a hundred years or more. Remember, Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime.
To hell with the knitted bag. If you have the patience you could duplicate it. But look at the shawls, look closely at the Punto in Aria one. At least one million button hole stitches. I can't think of any lace makers I know that would even consider taking on a project like that. That is a true work of art and worth much more then the selling price. I needle lace, bobbin lace and tat. God knows I love that shawl. I wonder if they would take a kid in a swap
There are amazing items at that site. The mind boggles. Embroidery, those netted mitts . . . the gallery items are incredible, too.
A lot of time, these were being made for the rich by the poor. (Same as now, if you look at the handmade doilies showing up in Wal-Mart made in China!)
And yours wouldn't be nearly 200 years old, preserved for posterity through some fluke of fate and attics!
It doesn't matter that I can, and have, replicated historic needlework with proper materials - mine are NEVER going to be worth the same $$ as the surviving original, even 200 years from now. Cuz the original would be 400 and even more valuabvle than now.
That said, I have been paid more than what that bag is going for, for reproducing historic stuff.
More than once.
In a hundred years, I'm sure your doilies will sell for that much. My sweaters, on the other hand, will be cat beds. (my password? bfbfg *snark* the password police put together an acronym that uses the word 'fuck'. I'm sad. I'll go now.)
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