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Knitting Is Coding’ And Yarn Is Programmable In This Physics Lab – By Siobhan Roberts – Preschool of the Arts New York City

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“Whether women knitted codes into fabric or used stereotypes of knitting women as a cover, there’s a history between knitting and espionage. “Spies have been known to work code messages into knitting, embroidery, hooked rugs, etc,” according to the 1942 book A Guide to Codes and Signals. During wartime, where there were knitters, there were often spies; a pair of eyes, watching between the click of two needles.”

The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool

Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she?