#now inflation calculators aren't necessarily as accurate as people think but 1964 wasn't that long ago so I felt safe using it for this

[buckets-of-dirt]

My latest youtube rabbit hole produced this fascinating piece on Shetland lace shawls from 1964. At one point the narrator estimates that the women make "rather less than three shillings an hour for their work" despite the shawls being worth twice their weight in gold. After playing around with an inflation calculator it turns out that in today's money that would be a bit under 3 pounds (or just over 3 USD) per hour - a criminally low amount to be paid for such craftsmanship