I brought my typewriter to an artist’s workshop that explored wearable hidden messages and how various cultures & artists have concealed information within items of decoration & clothing.
The suggested artifact was a SECRET MESSAGE BRACELET, so I typed messages onto paper strips, then wove them into a wearable form.
My particular short message was meant be conceptual & humorous, but this approach could be interesting with longer texts and passages folded & twisted into the bracelet’s pattern.
Workshop led by the artist Kate Ingold at the Wende Museum (Culver City, CA)
==TUTORIAL==
I found a YouTube tutorial that uses the same pattern as mine (but there are also a number of different patterns you can try).
The trickiest part may be cutting the strips into consistent widths. Since typewriter platens are shorter then the required length of each strip, I just glued the ends of multiple strips together to get the length I needed. Enjoy!
