The quiet joy of watching other people knit
These photos are utterly charming
![Taxicab driver knitting between fares, London, ca. 1940.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8G7j8wvqaBYnh2K3vvggec-415-80.jpg)
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(Image credit: (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016)"It is mesmerizing, even)
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(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))
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(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))
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(Image credit: (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))
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(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))
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(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))
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(Image credit: (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))
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Jackie Friedman is the assistant photo editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the photojournalism program at Kent State University and now lives in New York.
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