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aware of the fact that only a wealthy individual or organizations such as hotels, steamship lines, theaters and churches, could afford my fabrics then. It often took a week to hand loom one yard of material, and that yard would cost $35 and $40.  I began dreaming of the day when machines would be developed that could reproduce my designs, accurately, and without sacrificing the handcrafted "look." Then they would come within the price-range of people of modest means, to be enjoyed by the many, not just the privileged few. 

The other sentence said, "She has just been appointed in charge of the Decorative Arts Exhibit of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition."

This truly was an accolade. It signified that the art leaders of San Francisco, the Art Establishment if you will, were prepared to trust me to select the finest and most beautiful objects in the field of decorative arts wherever I found them in Europe.  It was