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Originally Posted by pearlescence
At the three week market in Manchester this summer my stall was opposite a vietnamese woman who claimed all her stuff was done by her brother and sister back in V - in spite of the artwork being three distinct styles - oh and she hand embroidered lots of panels which she spent a week making then sold for a tenner.
My comment was ' just how daft do you think I am?'
It is actually rude to claim this sort of nonsense, it means the claimer thinks we are stupid
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I know the panels of which you speak. The panels are machine embroidered with a few hand stitched stitches!! And I mean very few. So, of course, they are hand embroidered, see? My sister-in-law brought a load of them back from Vietnam, which she was tricked into buying. They told her the "montaignard" or hill tribe girls had hand embroidered them. Now the hill tribes are famous for their delftness with a needle and thread, but this lot definitly came from a factory.
Slraep