Jo Klomp: Nuenen's seamstress for seventy years

Jo Klomp: Nuenen's seamstress for seventy years

“At 88, don’t stop working, just move your work to your home so you can go on for a while”. This is Jo Klomp’s motto. She has run a haberdashery shop in Nuenen with fabrics, sewing thread and zips for more than 70 years. Jo is born in Nuenen and is a familiar face in the village. She still works five half-days a week in the shop at Park 31. ‘Since 1954 my shop has existed, I have never done anything else,’ she says. She started around the corner…