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Kōrero: Sewing, knitting and textile crafts

Seaside knitting, 1945

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Seaside knitting, 1945

This woman is enjoying a day out on the coast in the sun, but her hands are not idle. She is knitting for men serving in the Navy during the Second World War.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-045918-F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

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

Kerryn Pollock, Sewing, knitting and textile crafts – Home textile crafts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/40520/seaside-knitting-1945 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 12 December 2012.