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two girls Knitting on primary school (elementary school) of a trailer park in Haarlerm

Hartelijk dank. We hebben de reactie(s) verwerkt of zijn ermee bezig. Ook op onze beeldbank. Hains Hamelink, Spaarnestad Photo (partner Nationaal Archief).

Нидерланды, 1941. Две девочки в школе на уроке вязания. Трейлер-парк в Хаарлеме.

The girl in the front appears to be knitting the British way with the yarn in her right hand. That's interesting, I would have thought they would be knitting continental style, the "german" way in the Netherlands.

Dutch knitters are almost all "english style" knitters. Some people say that the German style was banned because of the wars and the bad reputation of the Germans back then. Just recently people start to knit continental again... there's a whole revival going through knitting-land.

This entire series is fantastic. Thanks so much for all your efforts, I love it!

translation: Girls in the Dutch Straw Works Company at Helmond. One girls takes the straw mats out of the sewing machine, the other bends the mats into tubes and fixes the ends by using a string. The production is on average 3000 pieces a day

Gwendolyn! What happened to Gwendolyn! She was just here, and now she's gone! ZOMG! I told you not so close to the edge! There's no need to show off! Nobody cares about our stupid roundabout!

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Enjoy

poignant

...and we all fall down.

Thank you so much for adding this photo to The Commons.
Here is what I was inspired to do, I hope you enjoy it, thanks for looking.