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Frederick L. Wright, the County Recorder."

My first press notice!  In all due modesty, I can say that since then, from 1907 to the present, hundreds of thousands of words about my work have appeared in books, magazines, newspapers and trade periodicals.  These have been translated into I know not how many foreign publications.  Even with a part-time assistant doing nothing else it is difficult to keep the press books up to date.  I take no particular credit for this except to say that for more than 40 years I have been "news" in the art world because I experimented with new materials and techniques in my weaving.  The modest little item tucked away in the Press-Democrat was the first.

Next, discovering a certain facility for drawing, I branched out a little more.  My first "model" was our dog, Bird, and I put a pretty good likeness of him on paper.  Or I would take a sketch book and draw whatever attracted my attention.  The love of flowers soon reasserted itself.  I drew about 50 different varieties and colored them as closely as possible with crayons.  Unlike many gardens in Santa Rosa, we did not have a lattice.  So I made my own - on paper.  I drew a sketch in the form of a lattice and pinned flower heads of different colors along the