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maering

19-06-22 06:07 PM

Prisoner of War Magazines

A bit off topic & if there is a better place to ask this please let me know.

I want to knit the patterns in the Red Cross Prisoner of War magazines & wondered if anyone had any of these in their collections and could photo just the knitting pattern part please ?

My uncle was a POW and it seems an interesting piece of WW2 history often forgotten

I currently have patterns from
1942 June & Nov
1943 April
1944 September
1945 Jan

Thanks in hope

Mel

mike_vee

20-06-22 06:47 AM

Not POW magazine but Victoria and Albert Museum has a selection of 1940's knitting patterns that can be downloaded.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/1940s-knitting-patterns

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maering

20-06-22 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by mike_vee (Post 581866)

Not POW magazine but Victoria and Albert Museum has a selection of 1940's knitting patterns that can be downloaded.

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/1940s-knitting-patterns

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Thanks Mike, yes I've seen them. Not free but another great 40s pattern place is fab40s.co.uk :)

Mel

londonclanger

20-06-22 01:25 PM

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Possibly some of the patterns from a pattern book "Knitting for the RAF" may have been reused. I have a PDF but cannot attach die to size. Message me if you want me to email it to you.

maering

20-06-22 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by londonclanger (Post 581887)

Possibly some of the patterns from a pattern book "Knitting for the RAF" may have been reused. I have a PDF but cannot attach die to size. Message me if you want me to email it to you.

Thanks will send pm

Jelly Terror

20-06-22 01:29 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by londonclanger (Post 581887)

Possibly some of the patterns from a pattern book "Knitting for the RAF" may have been reused. I have a PDF but cannot attach die to size. Message me if you want me to email it to you.

And reduced to a tanner, too. Bargain!

Attachment 269443

grey_green_acorn

20-06-22 02:58 PM

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These might be useful if you can find them!
The last one is available on Etsy

Tim

maering

20-06-22 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by grey_green_acorn (Post 581898)

These might be useful if you can find them!
The last one is available on Etsy

Tim

Thanks, I have a few knitting for forces/homefront ones, its the POW ones I'm focused on atm Just to be difficult !

mike_vee

20-06-22 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by maering (Post 581900)

Thanks, I have a few knitting for forces/homefront ones, its the POW ones I'm focused on atm Just to be difficult !

You can download the magazine (14 Issues) from this site :

https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.a...r+organisation

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maering

20-06-22 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mike_vee (Post 581902)

You can download the magazine (14 Issues) from this site :

https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.a...r+organisation

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Amazing thanks

Mel

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