1921. Where do you buy it?-I get it from the North Isles,-from Yell.
1922. You get it from people who make it there?-Yes.
1923. Do you generally knit for ladies who have given you an order, or do you knit your shawl and then seek for a purchaser?- Sometimes I get an order for shawl and make it, and at other times I make one and keep it until I get an order.
1924. Is it considered among you who knit, to be a better way of living that you knit to ladies than to merchants?-Yes.
1925. Do you ever try to dispose of your shawls to visitors who come to Shetland in the summer?-No, I never did that, for I generally get orders for them as soon as I have them ready.
1926. Do you know that it is the practice to look out for visitors in summer, or to send shawls to places such as hotels or lodging-houses where they stay, in order to get buyers among them?-I know that is a common thing, but I have never done it.
1927. Is that done because it is a more profitable way of disposing of the goods than by selling them to the merchants?-I think that is the reason.
1928. Or is it done because they get money from the visitors or strangers?-I believe it is because they get money.
1929. Do you get as large a price from a visitor in money as you get from a merchant in goods?-Yes.
1930. Do you know that from your own experience?-Yes.