A World War One poster to promote knitting for soldiers. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/LC-USZC2-670
Via AtlasObscura
We talk about story telling through metaphors of handicrafts and war stories are no different.
We often only associate knitting with women and the homefront, who waited and knitted and wept and waited and knitted some more – or so the stories go. Here is a story that is LITERALLY about knitting as a vehicle for information – the weaponisation of wool!
So much potential in this theme!
The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool (via AtlasObscura)
