The L.A. Times article for Spoolies Hair Curlers gives details about our owner and her struggle to create our high quality silicone curlers made in the USA. She learned about manufacturing and worked hard to receive two new U.S. patents for utility and design. The curler you buy is a quality product that will last for generations! See the article that begins, "In a large manufacturing plant in San Clemente, the product that took Jeanne James seven years to conceptualize and perfect began to take shape" here: