Recently me and the lovelyfella went to the Shetland Museum to watch a film called, The Work They Say is Mine. It was made for channel 4 in the mid 80s and looked at women in industry in Shetland and particularly how knitters were affected by the truck system.

Although truck was banned in the early 1800s, women in Shetland were expected to exchange their knitting for goods from the merchant for many years after