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Story: 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.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-1685-1-03

by Charles William Clift

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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/23328/knitting (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Matt Morris, published 4 March 2010.