1736. Does every shawl, after being knitted require to be so dressed before it is sold?-Yes.
1737. The merchants don't buy shawls until after they are dressed?-No.
1738. Are your transactions in dressing shawls always with the knitters, or are they sometimes with the merchants?-Sometimes they are with the merchants, and sometimes with the knitters.
1739. Then the merchants do buy shawls undressed?-No; they do not buy them undressed, but they send some shawls out to be worked for themselves; and it is these shawls I dress for them
1740 In that way a knitter who works for a merchant has nothing to do with you?-No.
1741. When she has knitted a shawl with wool supplied by the merchant, she takes it to the merchant, and he sends it to you to be dressed?-Yes.
1742. It is only the knitters who work with their own wool who come to you?-Yes.
1743. Do you also buy shawls from knitters yourself?-No; but I get shawls made in the same way as the merchants do, and then I sell them.
1744. To whom do you sell them?-To the merchants.
1745. Do you send any shawls south?-No.