[Jewelry making - Article 00265] - Re: [Orchid] Everybody in the pool!

[Lee Einer]

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>        I'd guess that the ratio of jewelry designers on e-bay to
>     actresses pouring coffee in Hollywood is about 100 to 1.  Don't
>     mean to stir up trouble (well, maybe just a little trouble . . ). 
>     Do people really think this is going to be that easy?  So far, I've
>     tried to work for a half dozen self styled "designers" and their
>     knowledge of what could and couldn't be done or should and
>     shouldn't be done made my jaw drop. 

    I wonder what that ratio would drop to if you only counted people
    who actually came up with original designs, and eliminated those who
    use the term "designer" as a code word meaning "third world
    sweatshop operator." Seriously, I have spoken with people at shows
    which were supposed to be solely for artists selling their own work,
    and have been told "oh, yes, we are designers, and we have our work
    produced in our factory in Bali." If the pieces they were selling
    were original and different, I might have believed, but what taxed
    my credulity was the idea that the Balinese needed an American
    couple to devise designs which looked the same as every other
    uninspired piece of low-end Balinese silver work.

Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com

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