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Cielo Thursday, February 16, 2006
   
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    I've am doing a collaboration at the moment, not with another jeweler
    but with a leather artist. We are creating a line of leather clutches
    & hand bags that are accented with semi-precious stones set in
    sterling silver. She creates the base bag and we sit down together to
    make sketches of stone placement. Once that is finished I take the
    bag to my studio and set the stones & silver in the leather. 

    The way we work out payment is that we each add up our own cost &
    time seperately to get an individual base "cost" for the bag, which
    we record on our own version of a price list. We then add these
    costs together and do our calculating to find wholesale & retail
    pricing based on our combined cost. When a bag sells we each get our
    own individual base cost back, plus half of the remaining sale price.
    For instance if a bag sells for $800, she put $100 into it in time &
    materials and I put $200, the remaining would be $500...so I would
    then get my $200 + $250 and she would get her $100 + $250. 

Hope this helps!


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