Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1915 — Fisherwomen Knit. [ARTICLE]

Fisherwomen Knit.

The fisherwomen of the East of Scotland are among the most dexterous knitters in the world and their skill is being turned to good account at this time, when their other sources of income are, to a great extent, paralyzed through the war. Quite recently an urgent need arose for the manufacture at short notice of some 40,000 pairs of socks for troops at the front, and these, through the agency of the Scottish committee on women’s employment, have been placed with the women of a number of fishing villages up and down the east coast of Scotland, more particularly in Aberdeenshire. Other large orders for socks, mittens, and the like have been given out to the fisherwomen in various parts of Scotland, and are affording a welcome addition to their diminished earnings in this most difficult time, more especially as in these fishing villages it would be a matter of extreme difficulty to arrange any other practicable scheme of work for the women.