The quiet joy of watching other people knit

These photos are utterly charming

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Taxicab driver knitting between fares, London, ca. 1940.
(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)

(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))

(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))

(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))

(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))

(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))

(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))

(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))

(Image credit: (Courtesy of Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria via People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2)

(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))

(Image credit: (People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine, published by Princeton Architectural Press 2016))

Jackie Friedman
Jackie Friedman

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.