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Story: Unpaid domestic work

School sewing

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School sewing

A group of children learn sewing skills, around 1910. Sewing machines became widely available from the 1890s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Northwood Collection (PA-Group-00027)

Reference: 1/2-029797; F

by Arthur James Northwood

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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Matt Morris, Unpaid domestic work – Making clothes and preserving food, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23326/school-sewing (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Matt Morris, published 4 March 2010.