06/27/2024
Yea!!! My latest catches. Getting more expensive but i believe I broke the textile pricing monopoly. Theres always a first dealer to fall when the amount gets bigger😉. Its kinda midevil for me, i carry his textiles around like battle trophies. Show the dealers perched in their lofty castles, tempt them to come play. The big ikat fragment is super cool, 19th century, three dealers guessed i paid $800-1000. Like I am mad! I tell dealers- I sleep in the cheapest places in town, hitchhike to get there, eat (***the most wonderful pre made salads) from the local supermarket- all so I can buy beautiful textiles and feed my three children (jk🤪). There is a backpacker motto (I created) "sleep cheap, travel cheap, eat well". The 3 small ikat fragments I offered 100,000 som each, thats only $7 as I am told over and over. Somehow that was agreed to without a telephone call. These are mid 19th C, the main dealer, "Akbar's House", in Bukhara said sadly, I should have paid at least $100 each. His, similar size he wants $350. Happy to say, he and other dealers guff at the prices I paid when I do my show and tell. Negotiations 300 level class: I do this so he knows I will spend hundreds or thousands and if he wants the zeros he has to sell at my price which often means he's enriching the pot. Tomorrow we will discuss his pieces before i leave.🤞🤞🤞
