"When we were young we never had a spinning
wheel in our house, but the neighbours they had. It was folk like my mum used
to go there - what we called ‘about
the nicht’, visiting."
Kathleen Anderson
"You called
the piece of knitting you were doing your ‘sock’, and
you would go round to a house and visit with your sock."
Christina Nicholson
All
Quotes:
Tristam, S. 2003, The Fabric of Society, M.Des.thesis Heriot Watt University