This is really cool and makes me think of Inca quipus, which are beautiful in their own right. I was a bit disappointed there were no clear pictures of the work itself.
This is really cool and makes me think of Inca quipus, which are beautiful in their own right. I was a bit disappointed there were no clear pictures of the work itself.
I totally forgot I'd heard about this way back in the day. It was more of a general write-up likely on someone's blog 15 or so years ago. And oddly[?], my first thought on the title before I...
I totally forgot I'd heard about this way back in the day. It was more of a general write-up likely on someone's blog 15 or so years ago.
And oddly[?], my first thought on the title before I clicked was Madam Defarge.
Cool idea, but I would think that the "facts on the ground" would be changing faster than someone would be able to encode them in a knit. Your sweater is always out of date.
Cool idea, but I would think that the "facts on the ground" would be changing faster than someone would be able to encode them in a knit. Your sweater is always out of date.
No more so than any written message. Beyond simply having access to the information by virtue of being unsuspected, it depends on whether they were tracking ongoing movements like the example of...
No more so than any written message. Beyond simply having access to the information by virtue of being unsuspected, it depends on whether they were tracking ongoing movements like the example of trains or sending a more urgent message.
It's not like you had to make a sweater or scarf if you were smuggling something urgent, vs knitting something into some silk yarn and tying your hair back up with that. Things move much slower and weren't out of date so quickly
This is really cool and makes me think of Inca quipus, which are beautiful in their own right. I was a bit disappointed there were no clear pictures of the work itself.
I totally forgot I'd heard about this way back in the day. It was more of a general write-up likely on someone's blog 15 or so years ago.
And oddly[?], my first thought on the title before I clicked was Madam Defarge.
Cool idea, but I would think that the "facts on the ground" would be changing faster than someone would be able to encode them in a knit. Your sweater is always out of date.
No more so than any written message. Beyond simply having access to the information by virtue of being unsuspected, it depends on whether they were tracking ongoing movements like the example of trains or sending a more urgent message.
It's not like you had to make a sweater or scarf if you were smuggling something urgent, vs knitting something into some silk yarn and tying your hair back up with that. Things move much slower and weren't out of date so quickly