Printed with fun and aessible wisdom from storyteller Ilam Shair this throw pillow from Your True Nature makes a great gift for your friends or for yourself Although Thomas Lemuel Oates started Manual Woodworkers and Weavers in 1932 the story goes bak further The roots of the ompany an be found in Oates' entrepreneurial spirit He and his brother used to farm the mountain areas of Bat Cave in western North Carolina They would also help their mother find materials for her rafts The sons began to make wooden whistles bukets and birdhouses They would sell their wares along with her rafts to the people from Charlotte that ame through in their horsedrawn buggies on the way to the mountains Later Thomas worked at the Ashville Postard Company When the Depression hit he lost his job but it inspired him to go into business and sell rafts like ornhusk dolls and woven piees that were produed by the loal women He had learned about the wholesale business while working at Ashville He built a waterwheel to generate eletriity at a mill began making produt and opened shop Over the years he expanded the ompany His son Lemuel Oates who would next manage the ompany says he worked in the business from a young age He explains the produts were made from otton sraps left over from making soks Halfinh irles would be looped together to form a variety of produts Lemuel Oates went to ollege and then settled in Rihmond In Deember 1973 he returned to Bat Cave and took over the ompany In 2007 his son Travis and his daughter Molly Oates Sherrill took over the businessp
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