to find and partner with local factories. >> i was part of a generation ta took it away from this country and didn't know what that would do really to our economy, and here i am now 20 years later having an opportunity to bring it back. >> weekes, who has schools like duke, yale, the university of nebraska and the university of cincinnati among her clients says she's done plen i of legwork. >> finding a big factory partner is extraordinarily difficult. it was a lot of getting in the car and getting on the phone. we'd been travel across the state of north carolina uncovering these cut-and-sew facilities and meeting with fabric vendors and finding cardboard box manufacturers who are still here. >> since so many north carolina textile factories shut down, the search was intense. >> reviving an industry that was booming 20 years ago and it really took a nap. so with schoolhouse we are