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Michael
Emery and Irmi Tueskoes Michael Emery and Irmi Tueskoes
arrived in the US as Hungarian refugees in 1957. They landed in Miami
Florida where freedom and sunshine made life beautiful, after escaping
from communism even though they could not speak English and had no
money.
It took only a few months for them to see the unlimited opportunities
of this wonderful country. They started a small business doing
reupholstering and drapery sewing with 3 leased sewing machines in their
living room. Business took off; they moved their operation to a
professional building on the Miami Avenue. Emery did the installations;
Irmi with 2 helpers did the fabrication. Just in two years, Irmi took
over the management of the company and Emery went 300 miles away to
Gainesville, FL to study mechanical engineering.
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While
he was a student, he had seen how difficult and time consuming was to
“table” draperies. He designed the first piece of equipment for their
workroom, the Vertical Tabler. After 40 years, several changes and
improvements later, this machine is still one of the best time and space
saver for both custom or commercial workroom.
After graduation, Emery took a job in Louisville, Kentucky at GE as an
Advance Engineer. They moved their workroom to Louisville where they
served the best decorators. On the side, Emery designed the first semi
automatic pleat-marking machine in the industry. Upon receiving the
patent on the Vertical Tabler, he quit GE and devoted full time to
manufacture equipment for the drapery Industry.
Irmi was running the
enlarged workroom with over 20 employees. In 1972, Emery’s interest was
caught up in another adventure and they moved to Austria. They sold both
businesses, one became Morgan Manufacturing the other is Spindletop
Draperies. In Austria, Irmi again started a drapery fabrication business
and gained experience in European style. Emery worked for the United
Nations as an adviser.
In 1976 they moved back to Louisville and
established Creative Engineering later became Creative Tueskoes Corp.
and restarted the drapery operation. Emery designed additional labor
saving equipment for the soft window treatment fabricating industry. He
designed a wide variety of fabric inspection cutting measuring machines
and many specialized equipment. Irmi’s for decades of drapery
fabrication experience was instrumental in designing the right
equipment. She has held several seminars during the trade shows about
workroom technology, profitable workroom, and workroom layout and
equipment. Now their equipment is working in all five continents of the
world.
In 2003 they have sold the equipment manufacturing business and thus
can devote full time to share their many years of experience with the
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