Unravel the Purloined

Textiles that carry messages: a museum of craft as testimony and resistance, a lab that turns words into something you can knit, and a small game of finding what is hidden in plain sight.

The title above is knitted: one column of five stitches per letter, a dot for each purl.

01Encode in the labTurn a message into a knitting pattern, or design your own alphabet. 02Decode a gridMark the stitches of a knitted piece and read the message back. 03Visit the archiveExplore the evidence and the stories being prepared. 04Play The Purloined ParcelRead the messages hidden in knitted parcels. 05See the galleryReal pieces knitted from the lab, hung as they come off the needles.

UNRAVEL THE PURLOINED Decryption may require frogging.