Act 1 from Piece-dye by Cal Folger Day
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Lyrics
And even tho you’re young enough to have a good memory
Doesn’t work that way
Yeah but anyway
No I mean when I was babbling away
I know that you know you’re trying to do this project
I quite honestly don’t think my story kind of merits
You know what I’m saying
I mean you’ll have to do a whole lot of embellishing or something
Because I this what what you probably have a completely
Different peg that you’re hanging things on
So you can direct your you know what I’m saying
I mean I didn’t have to cross any mountains to get into the States
My story would be multiplied by millions probably you know it’s this
Why I say it’s your own creation which you can
If this gives you a starting off point
So be it
Initially so um
I was sort of living in you know we were kind of a bedsit situation and um
I found there was nobody kind of around during the daytime
So my only cousin just a I’ve forgotten what degree of cousin
My father’s first cousin was a gentleman who lived in New York in New Jersey
So he had a connection to somebody who ran an employment agency
And set me up to meet her and so on
So she sent me on an interview to this textile company
That were looking for somebody in their weaving department
You know they asked did I know how to weave
Well having been through home economics we had had one project for weaving
So I said yes
But it didn’t matter because in the ‘50s large companies really trained their employees
To whatever they wanted
So you know I blended
You know I was asked if I would get along with people
You know or words to that effect
I’d never been asked that question before
So I said yes yeah I mean meekly I would’ve agreed
Are you an axe murderer
Possibly but
Then they started me off in that department
And what they would do is make small samples on a
You know a handloom nothing like a large industrial type
Uh to show customers what their design would look like
Garment manufacturers
The buyers would come in and look at our designs
Cos we had a book of possibilities
And they might want their own variation on one of them
Or they might have brought in something entirely different that they wanted to interpret
We had color books showing all the available colors
All the whites browns blues you know et cetera et cetera
They’d say well I like this but I need it closer to what I have here
So that’s where our mills down south
You know they could adapt our stuff to continue matching
And when I um eventually was moved in that department
Into the design area
Well again it was a beginning step
You know you were mentored throughout
