1423. Do you make your own worsted, or buy it?-I buy wool, and make it.
1424. Where do you buy it?-From any person who sells it. There is a Mrs. Smith in Fetlar who sells wool. She lives at a place called Smithfield.
1425. Has she a shop?-No. They formerly had shop, but they don't have one now. She is a widow
1426. Has she any land?-Yes; she has a small farm. She has some sheep, and she obliges any person with wool who wants it.
1427. Do you always buy your wool from her?-[Page 29] Sometimes from her, and sometimes from any merchant I can get it from.
1428. Do you pay for it in money?-Yes; or in work.
1429. What kind of work?-Any kind of household work that they have to do. People employ others to do so much work, and give them wool for it.
1430. Do you mean work on their farms or ground-Yes; and they will give them wool in return, because the wool in Fetlar is so scarce.
1431. You knit on your own account, and sell what you knit?- Yes.
1432. Do you sell it to merchants in Fetlar?-No. There are no merchants in Fetlar who take it. I come down to Lerwick with it once a year.