Originally Posted by
deltadelta48
Since I grab up any framed vintage counted cross stitch, needlepoint, etc, picture I can lay my hands on, I know it is hard to chose the category. Mostly I try to double list it in antiques, and chose craft as a second one. Just to get more viewers.
I smiled when you mentioned stuff in the wrong categories. At auctions that is often done, no one really knows needlepoint from crochet and call everything "hand work". I sit and knit and often have people comment on my crochet. Oh well, why fight it? Since people often do not know one from another, putting stuff in wrong category is going to happen. We can tell knitted doilies from crochet ones, or stamped cross stitch from counted, but few other people can. Not all sellers are experts, and often have great items to sell that they do not know much about. So I am thinking that it is probably better to have a separate category for finished things, with sub cats than to put a subcat under each type of needlework?
This is really a growing category as more crafts like knitting get popular. An auctioneer here routinely THREW AWAY any crochet hooks, knitting needles, old craft kits, etc when he was sorting out estate items. One of his ring people finally got him to list a big lot of knitting needles from the 1930s 1940s, and he almost dropped his teeth when they went to $60!! Now he brings everything to the auctions.