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Old 19-06-22, 06:07 PM
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Default 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
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Old 20-06-22, 06:47 AM
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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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Old 20-06-22, 09:33 AM
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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

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Old 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.
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Old 20-06-22, 01:28 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.
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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.
And reduced to a tanner, too. Bargain!

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

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Old 20-06-22, 03:04 PM
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These might be useful if you can find them!
The last one is available on Etsy

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Thanks, I have a few knitting for forces/homefront ones, its the POW ones I'm focused on atm Just to be difficult !
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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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You can download the magazine (14 Issues) from this site :

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Amazing thanks

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