GUIDE FOR INDIANS
‘The Perfect Sweater’
Women in India are turning to television to learn how to knit “the perfect sweater.” On a weekly programme televised from New Delhi experts from the Indian branch of the International Wool Secretariat give detailed instructions on how to cast on, knit, purl and cast off—with close-ups to show how it is done.
It is hoped in this way to reach millions of women knitters who, because they are unable to read, cannot follow an ordinary knitting pattern.
The television knitting class, produced by the AllIndia Radio’s television department, is the latest development in the wool secretariat’s “learn-to-knit” campaign in India. Since 1959 the secretariat has been giving knitting courses to women workers trained by the Government to bring modern ideas to the villages. As each woman worker deals with five villages at a time, and 1500 have taken the course, a conservative estimate is that they have already taught about 150,000 women villagers to knit.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30636, 30 December 1964, Page 2
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