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Sam Marx, of Chicago, and Edward Durrell Stone, who saw my work in New York.

The Japanese blind that I re-wove for my mother came to the attention of Frances Elkins, one of the country's foremost decorators then.  After I established the studio, we began working together. Her brother, David Adler, of Chicago, was as prominent in architecture as she was in her field. Thus, through her, my work began going into the houses he built in many parts of the country. It is not too much to say that there was always something on the looms for Frances. We became not only colleagues but travelling companions and close friends.

This, too, is moving a little ahead of the story.

I had a thin time for about the first six months in the studio, before commissions began coming from the architects. Then the word-of-mouth spread, reaching a