[Jewelry making - Article 00001] - Re: [Orchid] Non-jeweler designers at shows

[Steelybone]

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>     Surely you would only have a right to be furious if you are trying
>     to sell your own mass-produced junk? 

    Now, children.  Play nice.   "Mass-produced" doesn't HAVE to equal
    junk.  If one could mass-produce (accurately) the Mona Lisa, it
    wouldn't be junk, but the value would plummet because it would have
    lost its rarity.  A fabulous wax carving deserves to be made up more
    than once - what about the Orchid-list orchids??  Junk is junk, in
    multiples or one-offs. Stuff that is cheaply mass-produced in
    foreign sweatshops annoys me when it's set up next to my work from
    which my arthritic thumbs are still hurting (even if you don't
    consider me an "artist".)  It isn't always junk, but I'm sorely
    tempted to refer to it as such because I'm in a snit. 

Tas
www.earthlywealth.com

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