I saw this quote on R Ranson's project
thread https://permies.com/t/73354/permaculture-projects/yarn-projects-spinning-weaving-natural
leila hamaya wrote:
Judith Browning wrote:I had some wandering thoughts in this area...
Marketing is always the most difficult part of craft production especially in the fiber arts. When I was weaving full time it was not the area that I wanted to spend much time but was so necessary.
Steve used to put the number of hours he spent on a coopered bucket tag rather than the price...it made for some interesting conversations and gave folks another way to look at his work.
i knew one sculptor who did this with all of her work. it helped probably that she made gigantic sculptures, maybe...but she never priced her work. only kept track of her exact materials cost and hours, and then asked her buyer to pay her the same wage they received for that amount of hours.
I think it would be marvelous if we listed an approximation of how many hours we spend on a project. I don't think it
should be required, of
course. But, some things take a lot more hours than another person might expect. If I see it takes someone usually 30 hours to knit a scarf, I'm going to want to make sure that what I offer in trade would take me a similar amount of hours, and maybe throw in some
PIE to make up the difference if I have nothing to offer that they want that would take a similar amount of time.