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Out of my association with the Wrights came a priceless gift -- self-confidence. True, by the time our friendship began, others considered me an established designer and innovator. Articles about my work appeared regularly in magazines and newspapers, calling it the "Liebes Look" and the "California Look." Life Magazine published an eight-page spread of the studio in color, showing the brilliant hues of the yarns we were using. The article began, "Dorothy Liebes, who operates a weaving studio on San Francisco's Sutter Street, is one of the most pervasive yet least-known cultural influence in U. S. life." Among the one-man museum shows was one titles, "Twenty Years of Dorothy Liebes." That, I thought, was stretching things a bit, since 20 years earlier I was just beginning to weave simple little swatches in the attic in our home in Berkeley.