[Jewelry making - Article 00093] - Re: [Orchid] Designer Spying

[Kimberly Starbard]

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>     your designs all come from ancient study,,, so where's the
>     plaigarism on her part,, i applaud you for hand working methods,,
>     and not casting,,, but it's been done 

    There's got to be something in her work that caught the interest of
    the "other woman" other wise she would have found no need to be
    there. Could be price....could be craftsmanship....could the ability
    to tap another market, who knows. I stand by my original conviction.
    The work is lovely. Quite frankly, it does possess a certain level of
    craftsmanship currently missing from some very commercially
    successful New York based jewelers. 

    I was thinking on this for most of the day. The fact is, there isn't
    anything new under the Sun. Novel ideas are rare. However, I think
    (my opinion) that the number one rule of jewelry making (well, number
    2...right behind "don't spend all of your hard-earned show money on
    fancy martinis for the house) is Make what the customer wants and
    offer it at prices the customer can afford. 

    A person can spend all their time coming up with the next greatest,
    new design. It can be brilliant, but if it is not what the customer
    wants at a price the customer can afford, you're dead in the water. 

    So what if there is a lot of "historically-based" jewelry on the
    market right now. The pieces are beautiful. People love them. They
    sell. There isn't anything wrong with that. 

    I still think the little Cyrillic pendants are pretty. I thought of
    little "promise rings" and "promise pendants" that said "I love you"
    in different languages....really nice. (I wonder what "I love you"
    looks like in Mandarin Chinese?) 

Good Luck Pamela! I wish you the best
Kim
Kim Starbard
http://www.kimstarbarddesigns.com
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