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Kōrero: Unpaid domestic work

Knitting

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Knitting

Many New Zealand women provided much of the family’s new clothing by knitting and sewing. Charles William Clift photographed his wife knitting in the sitting room of their home in Vogeltown, Wellington.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-1685-1-03

by Charles William Clift

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Matt Morris, Unpaid domestic work – Making clothes and preserving food, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23328/knitting (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Matt Morris, i tāngia i te 4 March 2010.