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WOOL KNITTING IN THE SHETLAND ISLANDS. 1...
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E. It Lias Frequently Been Observed, Alt...
dispose cares for of her it for forlorn her benefit state , and she will raay buy str her ugg work le on , or suffering endeavour 1 hard to
ships patiently , and may bring , up her family , and , even till old age never receivenever ask other assistancetill she may at
may , , daug length hter find , who a , more if they comfortable have a heart home at all with , are some surely married glad childhood to shelter son or
the decline of her who toiled so hard for their orphaned . The reader will see in this slight sketch , ( which represents the cases of hundreds of the Shetland females ) how much , to them ,
depends Helthe on m there British being wives a demand and mothers for the , knitted protect the goods tender . breasts
of your p little , ones by the soft texture of Shetland wool : there being no admixture of cottonit is more conducive to health and comfort
, than any other you can procure—even at the expense of a little additional trouble , the benefit will not be altogether to the
Shetlanders . thoug Hel Hel h p p it them them may , , noble be bri less ght ladies gay young , ; is over to be brides your found ! fair no in shoulders your fabric in cashmer costl more , y coming trousseaux is elegant softer from . ,
or the warmer midnight than ball an or concert le shawl , nothing of Shetland woven manufacture e and let amp , the thought , too , warm your heart—it will do you quite as much
good as the physical comfort—that the original cost of your wrapping has , without doubt , made one poor soul glad . not
• more _TV"hen than the one girls or two of the of fisherman them are ' s likel famil y to y are get numerous married . , The brothers abroad as sailorsso that too often the first anguished
parting is go for ever . They , are lost at sea , or they marry and settle in some southern port . Perchance they are unheard of for
sl Perhaps long , time after ; careless fifteen , or thoug twenty htless years beings ' absence , sailors , they generall suddenl y are and y !
appear in their northern birth-place , as if from the grave , themselve they find s their most mother of all— dead that , they and go other away things again , so and changed their history —they
closesin as far as their native isle is concerned . Thus it is , that show single , unprovided While the - parents for females both are live so they numerous always , have as the a home census where may
. they . are ever sure of welcome ; , should they even leave it , for a time the love , to try of home some other beckons more them independent back—to mode lend a of hand life— in ever the , ever old
accustomed work of the little household and farm , and to knit for 'their clothingBut parents diebrothers and sisters are scattered :
. , what then are the lonely ones to do ? Much as the widows dothey get a very small hut of mud and stones , turf-thatched , raised
on a sheltered piece of barren ground near to an inhabited hamlet . They no rent for thisthey may even dig a patch of
the hard ground pay , and by manuring , with the peat ashes raise a
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WOOL KNITTING IN THE _SHETLAND ISLANDS . 147
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/3/
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