Oh, I could easily see how the cost to hand-fringe/purl the ends would be very expensive. Especially when you have to do two ends of double-width cloth. Just removing the cross-threads to expose the ends in preparation for purling will take a couple of hours. Then the purling process itself takes a long, long time. I seem to recall AKScott's thread where he described it taking at least 20 hours or so. Whether the cost of this hand-work will equal the cost of the cloth would obviously depend on how much cloth is used. But it would still be pretty expensive for all that tedious hand labor.

Fortuntely, it's the type of thing any person should be able to do himself with a little practice. I'll be charging myself a very inexpensive rate for my labour.