#you're not catching me paying 30p-per-bead no SIR

[somecunttookmyurl]

people just consistently have no concept of what goes into the art they see! like I follow a lot of artists whose jewelry is more in line with your description of what goes into your blankets than your earrings in terms of materials and time (I'm talking like painstakingly hand-beaded earrings with antique beads and precious metal findings, backed with hide that they smoked themselves) and they also get people commenting on their prices being too high :(((

yuuup

i mean time-wise it still wouldn't be that much longer. i also hand-bead details on some earrings and stuff it's still not like... a massively time consuming process or anything. blankets take 100+ hours. this choker took me 30 minutes. the necklace only a little longer, despite all the bead connecting going on there

but the materials cost of using. well. high quality materials is what gets you

there's a reason i use metal alloys and glass beads instead of sterling silver and real stone beads, and that reason is "i do not want to pay for sterling silver and real stones that shit is expensive"

(smoking hides also probably takes longer? although i feel like most of that process would be "waiting")

which is again a double sided issue of "undercharging for precious metals/stones/beads" and "overcharging for metal alloy and plastic" that made a clusterfuck baby somewhere in the middle

#gotta thread all those beads onto little bits of metal and then bend the metal into loops at either end #which is fiddly and tedious and slightly makes you want to walk into traffic #but still a whole universe removed from the time fibre arts take #nice prettily coloured glass beads can easily be 5x cheaper than like. actual minerals #babs at the stall next to me buys Actual Minerals because she has customers who believe in the inherent properties of crystals #and she's far too nice to buy pretty beads that look like obsidian or amethyst or whatever but aren't #i on the other hand am here purely for the aesthetic value. black is black #you're not catching me paying 30p-per-bead no SIR