PRINCESS'S GIFTS
The gift of a yacht from the Dutch nation to Princess Juliana for her wedding was an expression of the goodwill of the whole nation, but many cities showed their affection for the Princess in a mor© person al way, states an exchange. Rotterdam decided on a gift of its own, and after due consideration it Wag decided to provide a Deventer carpet for the bridal horne, these carpets being one of the specialties for which Holland is famous. a craftsman was specially brought from the town of Deventer, and he set up his frame in the town hall, so that the citizens could watch their gift carpet being inade. Then began one of the strangeet pilgrimages ever witnessed. Thousands of Women filed past to gaze at the carpet which would adorn their Prin-1 cess's home. The craftsman allowed them actually to handl© the needle. This idea caught on and every Woman who filed past was allowed to work four etitches! So the Princess' a carpet is an aetual person al tribnte from thousands of needle-womeU.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 1, 16 January 1937, Page 10
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