I found this picture in my favorite cookbook, Mennonite Foods & Folkways from South Russia, vol. 1:
It looks like they are knitting stockings and maybe embroidering some linens? What’s interesting about it, though, is that they took this picture at a photographer’s studio. I wonder why they wanted to include their knitting in the picture?
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I love old photos!
As to why they would include their knitting in the photo-op: to be industrious is to be virtuous, right?
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