Can you imagine the wife of a US President sitting down to spin at a charkha?
Can you imagine a country putting an image of the wife of a US President sitting down to spin at a charkha on a postage stamp?
This stamp of Eleanor Roosevelt (activist and inveterate knitter) was issued by India in 1963 to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Roosevelt's role in its passage.
Roosevelt was such a knitter that the official White House portrait of her includes an image of her knitting hands.









