Originally Posted by
Peckish
I wonder if someone asked to purchase a piece of his hand-made furniture, and he quoted a price in the hundreds or maybe even thousands of dollars, would that person then gasp and retort that they can get that furniture at Walmart for a fraction of his price?
My husband and I had this very discussion a couple of months ago, and when I made the same point, my quiltmaking vs his woodworking, he thought about it for quite a while and agreed that people would balk at paying quilt prices but not woodworking prices. But why is that? Is it because people are truly ignorant of how much work goes into making a quilt? Or do we somehow, even in this day and age, still place a lower value on "women's work"?
I just posted but I had to reply to this. My brother is a custom cabinet maker and gets the same reaction. He, nicely, tells them to go and buy the better priced item because he can't make it for that. Many times these people come back after they see what is really out there. I think that men are still thought of as the 'bread winner' so women would not recieve the same consideration. I paid almost $1,000 for an Amish quilt. I could see the work and knew it was never going to come close to anything I could make. Many times it takes a fellow quilter to figure the true value.