18. When you were a child do you remember how people wove cloth, or spun
thread, or picked out cotton seed, or weighed cotton or what sort of bag
was used on the cotton bales?
No.
19. Do you remember what sort of soap they used? How did they get the
lye for making the soap?
Yes, I'd help to make the ash lye and soft soap. Never seed and cake
soap until I came here.
20. What did they use for dyeing thread and cloth and how did they dye
them?
They used indigo for blue, copperas for yellow, and red oak chips for
red.
21. Did your mother use big, wooden washtubs with cut-out holes on each
side for the fingers?
Yes, and dey had smaller wooden keels. Never seed any tin tubs up there.