Tiny Fingers Were Employed To Make Exquisite Carpets
The small woollen pile handmade carpets exhibited in the Indian section of the “International Wool” exhibition in London recently is, besides being a magnificent example of this ancient Indian industry, an article of considerable historical and social interest, states the New Zealand Wool Board. These carpets have been made for centuries by children—only their tiny fingers can tie as many as 4080 kno'ts to the square inch. In the carpet exhibited there are altogether 2,358,720 separate knots. For centuries, children became useless to the industry when they reached the age of 12: their fingers had grown too big for the work. And now the Government of India is introducing legislation which will make vast differences to the conditions of employing child labour - it may even abolish it altogether.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 55, 26 October 1949, Page 5
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136Tiny Fingers Were Employed To Make Exquisite Carpets Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 55, 26 October 1949, Page 5
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