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widening circle of architects and from them the interior decorators. I soon became so busy that I needed help. A friend from college days, Ruth MacKinlay, was one of the first to come to the rescue. She learned to weave, both on-the-job, and by taking lessons outside the studio. She had a highly-developed artistic sense and she soon became a clever craftsman. Next, a petite and charming American-born Chinese woman, Louisa Fong, simply appeared at the door one day and said she would like to work in the studio. She had read about it in a newspaper article. "Weezie," as we came to call her, was not in need of a job. Her husband, Wallace Fong, was one of the chief engineers in the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. She became a jack-of-all-trades in the studio, stitching, sewing, typing letters, mailing out bills. When the business reached the point where I needed a bookkeeper, "Weezie" appropriated that job, too. Bring Chinese, of course, she was a natural businesswoman