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fabrics."

Eventually, my staff in the basement studio grew until a dozen assistants, and sometimes more, were working there, Tid and Tinney sometimes came in to help. Tid, the clown, was a disruptive influence and so we assigned her to prepare lunch which was served in a lovely little garden into which the studio opened. We had so much fun that someone called our operation, "Nonsense, Inc.," and the name stuck.

Another newspaper clipping, preserved in the scrapbook that records that period, appeared, I believe, in the Chicago Daily News. The picture it drew of our planning methods is quite accurate. It said:

"Do not think, however, that these weavers nonchalantly toss of a yard during tea time. All weaving is hard work. Many weeks of concentrated effort are expended before a pattern is strung on the loom (a back-