1923 15/1 Ask at any wool shop for ‘Beehive’ Recipe Card No. 50 (price 2d.).
1943 A. Christie xiii. 147 She was knitting—ever so vexed she'd run out of wool... So I ran her in, dropped her at the wool shop.
1983 C. Bowder i. 38 The colour's a bit unusual. It was a discontinued line in my local wool~shop.