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Ronald Paul: You know black ash is something that you can use it on almost for everything. Everything, I mean everything, hell it’s just like string. Can tie things with it, make baskets, and put the chairs together, and hold everything together and brace it. Old women, old women, we used to watch them. They used to cut them strips, little narrow strips, just about the size of a shoelace, long strands then they’d hook it on and get a basket hoop and they held it and then they laced it all the way around. The basket never contained no nails, they just wove it around. They’d take two sticks and they put them together they wove all the way around, they’d get to the handle, they pull the handle down and they lace it back and forth and then they go around it again. Baskets always has double bottoms because they had lot of wear and tear on them, made them hard to work with.
